Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700 / Melveena McKendrick.

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McKendrick, Melveena.

Title & Author:

Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700 / Melveena McKendrick.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 330 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-319) and index.
The Birth of the Drama -- From drama to theatre -- The comedia: some definitions and problems -- Lope de Vega -- Tirso de Molina and the other Lopistas -- The reign of Calderon -- The corrales and their audience -- Theatre at court -- Theatre in the street: the auto sacramental.

Summary:

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 organization 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.

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ISBN:

0521355923
9780521355926
0521429013
9780521429016

Subject:

Spanish drama Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
Theater Spain History.
Théâtre espagnol 1500-1700 (Période classique) Histoire et critique.
Théâtre Espagne Histoire.
Spanish drama Classical period.
Theater.
Toneel.
Toneelstukken.
Spaans.
Théâtre espagnol 1500-1700 (période classique) Histoire et critique.
Théâtre (genre littéraire) espagnol 1500-1700 (période classique) Histoire et critique.
Spain.
Spain Theatre, history
Theatre History

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 53636
Call No.: ID:90-B2329
Status: Available

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