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The Baroque had a Catholic and conservative character in Spain, following an Italian literary model during the Renaissance. [140] The Hispanic Baroque theatre aimed for a public content with an ideal reality that manifested fundamental three sentiments: Catholic religion, monarchist and national pride and honour originating from the chivalric ...
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to combat the Reformation and the Protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. [1]
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]
Opéra-ballet (French: [ɔ.pe.ʁa.ba.lɛ]; plural: opéras-ballets) [1] is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century, [2] combining elements of opera and ballet, [3] "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeenth century". [4]
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (/ d ə ˈ v eɪ ɡ ə /; 25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature.
L'Illusion comique plays with the idea of theatre within the theatre and has many layers of representation: The first level is the entire play with its share of conflicts, complications, and dénouements. The second level is the scene between Alcandre and Pridamant, who are actors and spectators at the same time
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
A veteran actor, master of farce, slapstick, the Italian and Spanish theatre (see above), and "regular" theatre modeled on Plautus and Terence, Molière's output was large and varied. He is credited with giving the French " comedy of manners " ("comédie de mœurs") and the "comedy of character ("comédie de caractère") their modern form.