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prose; reprinted as Great Spanish Plays in English Translation (1991) ISBN 0-486-26898-5: La Vida es Sueño: Life is a Dream: 1963: Alpern, Hymen: Three Classic Spanish Plays: El gran teatro del mundo: The Great Stage of the World: 1964: Brandt, George W. The Great Stage of the World: An Allegorical Auto Sacramental in Three Acts/Gran teatro ...
The play is an allegorical explanation of man's place in world according to the Catholic Church doctrine. [ 1 ] In the play there is an Author ( God ) who writes the actual Play that is the world; humans are given characters according to the Author’s will: the King who has the power, the poor who suffers, the rich who enjoys very much his ...
As multiple translations of several plays have been made, this covers only about two dozen of Lope's Spanish originals. By far the most frequently translated play is Fuente Ovejuna (The Sheep Well) , followed by The Dog in the Manger , The Knight of Olmedo , The Silly Lady , Peribáñez and the Comendador of Ocaña , and Capulets and Montagues .
Due to Spanish Empire expansion, the performing art has been adapted in other places in Europe, America, and Asia, as in the Philippines since the 17th century and is a popular street play throughout the country. Unlike the Spanish version, the Philippine version is dominated by indigenous Philippine cultures which are used in language ...
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 1600 – 25 May 1681) (UK: / ˌ k æ l d ə ˈ r ɒ n ˌ d eɪ l æ ˈ b ɑːr k ə /, US: / ˌ k ɑː l d ə ˈ r oʊ n ˌ d eɪ l ə-,-ˌ d ɛ l ə-/; Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo kaldeˈɾon de la ˈβaɾka]; full name: Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer.
For plays about Christianity or Christian characters, but not necessarily from a Christian perspective, see Category:Plays about Christianity Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
A loa is a short theatrical piece, a prologue, written to introduce plays of the Spanish Golden Age or Siglo de Oro during the 16th and 17th centuries. These plays included comedias (secular plays) and autos sacramentales (sacred/religious plays). The main purposes for the loa included initially capturing the interest of the audience, pleading ...
Autos sacramentales (Spanish auto, "act" or "ordinance"; sacramental, "sacramental, pertaining to a sacrament") are a form of dramatic literature which is unique to Spain and Hispanic America, though in some respects similar in character to the old Morality plays of England. map of present-day Spain