Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 3/16/2009
EAN 9780521429016, ISBN10: 0521429013
Paperback, 344 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
This is the first book to examine the rise of Spain's extraordinary national theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in all its aspects - the commercial theatre, the court drama and the Corpus autos, the organisation of theatrical life, the playhouses themselves and their public, the literary and moral controversies, and the plays as literary texts. The book has been written for students of drama as well as Hispanists: Spanish theatre is set in its national and international context; Spanish titles and theatrical terms are translated. Considerable space has been devoted to the experimental drama of the sixteenth century before Lope de Vega. At the core of the book is a highly distinctive, successful national theatre which mirrored the energies, beliefs and anxieties of a great nation in crisis, yet at the same time granted full expression to the individual genius of its greatest exponents - Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina and Calderon de la Barca.
List of plates
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The birth of the drama
2. From drama to theatre
3. The Comedia
some definitions and problems
4. Lope de Vega
5. Tirso de Molina and the other Lopistas
6. The reign of Calderon
7. The Corrales and their audience
8. Theatre at court
9. Theatre in the street
the auto sacramental
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index.