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A Bond Honoured: A Play (from Lope De Vega) reprinted in Lope de Vega: Plays Two ISBN 978-1840021806: Auto sacramental de la circuncisión y sangría de Cristo nuestro bien: For our sake: 1969 Barnes, R[ichard] G. In Three Spanish sacramental plays: For our sake OCLC 655189012: 1-act religious play Fuente Ovejuna: Fuente Ovejuna: 1969 Colford ...
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.
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 ...
Spanish one act plays in English : a comprehensive anthology of Spanish drama from the 12th century to the present: auto El desafío de Juan Rana: Juan Rana's Duel: 1934: Jones, Willis Knapp: Spanish one act plays in English : a comprehensive anthology of Spanish drama from the 12th century to the present: El gran teatro del mundo: The Great ...
The play was adapted for cinema, and the film En la ardiente oscuridad was released in 1958, though not in the United States. Performances of the play in the US are rare; for example, none of Buero Vallejo's plays has been presented on Broadway. The play has also been adapted as an opera for a cast of 12 singers and piano by composer Omar Najmi.
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In Spanish all secular plays were called comedias, which embraced three genres: tragedy, drama, and comedy itself. During the Spanish Golden Age, corrals became popular sites for theatrical presentations in the early 16th century when the theatre took on a special importance in the country. The performance was held in the afternoon and lasted ...
The fame of the play invited satire of The Conquest of Granada by other playwrights. One example is The Rehearsal , written by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham . Henry Fielding , in Tragedy of Tragedies, or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great ( 1730 ) also takes aim at the silliness of some of The Conquest of Granada.