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The Great Theatre of the World: [A Morality Play] Based on a Theme from Calderón: auto Amar despues de la Muerte: Love After Death: 1959: Campbell, Roy: The Classic Theatre III: Six Spanish Plays, ed. Eric Bentley: blank verse La Vida es Sueño: Life is a Dream: 1959: Campbell, Roy: The Classic Theatre III: Six Spanish Plays, ed. Eric Bentley
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 .
Calderón de la Barca, a key figure in the theatre of the Spanish Golden Age. Spanish Golden Age theatre refers to theatre in Spain roughly between 1590 and 1681. [1] Spain emerged as a European power after it was unified by the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469 and then claimed for Christianity at the Siege of Granada in 1492. [2]
The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-521-43437-8. Bentley, Eric, ed. 1984. The Trickster of Seville. By Tirso de Molina. Trans. Roy Campbell. In Life is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics. Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire v.2. New York: Applause. 137–218. ISBN 978-1-55783-006-7. Brockett, Oscar G. and Franklin J ...
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 ...
Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fantástico en dos partes (Don Juan Tenorio: Religious-Fantasy Drama in Two Parts) is a play written in 1844 by José Zorrilla.It is the more romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpretations of the legend of Don Juan.
In the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) tradition, a comedia is a three-act play combining dramatic and comic elements. The principal characters are noblemen (galanes; sg.: galán) and ladies (damas) who work out a plot involving love, jealousy, honor and sometimes also piety or patriotism.
Title page of a comedy by Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. Catholic Spain was the most powerful European nation by the 16th century. [5] The Spanish Armada was defeated by England in 1588, however, while Spain was trying to defend the northern coast of Africa from the expansion of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, [6] and the gold and silver that Spain took from its possessions in the New World were ...