Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Spanish Golden Age Theatre has many playwrights. Information on playwright's.
Lope de Vega is one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century of
Baroque literature. His most notable play is "Fuenteovejuna" in 1613.
Juan del Enzina is known by his name "Founder of Spanish Drama”. One of his notable works is " romances & villancicos " in 1496.
Calderon de la Barca is a key figure of Spanish Golden Age Theatre. One of his most notable plays is "Life is a Dream". He also wrote about 80 Autos Sacramentales.
Spanish Golden Age Theatre contains contents like comedy but that's not the main genre in this theatre, history, on medieval epics, on diverse traditions and religious cultures. All plays have something to do with Spain culture, particularly the sacramental plays.
The plays were organized into three acts that took the following form:
• 1st act: Introduction
• 2nd act: Conflict
• 3rd act: Resolution
Often the first act began “in media res”, meaning in the middle of the main action. This was a way of maintaining the audience´s attention from the opening line of the play. The predominant form was verse. Normally the plays used polymeter. They used different meters depending on what the verse was about. In this way they achieved both enjoyment and beautiful poetic unity, which made the play more dramatic. They followed all simple narrative.
Where did the plays take place practising/performing?
Founders Of Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Spanish Golden Age Theatre is mostly based on the Government and Religion. There's not many play's based on policies of the government or Laws but they do play's based on what goes on in the government. Some play's were based on war, but all plays had a dash of comedy/romance in it for the audience desires.
Cosimo Lotti was an engineer who built a stage for the performers of the Spanish Golden Age Theatre in 1635, but it wasn't the only place where they have been performing/practicing. It's located above lake waters with a silver chariot drawn across the surface by two large fish, and a mountain was transformed into a palace in Calderon’s Love is the Greatest Enchantment.
Spanish Golden Age Theatre was socially influenced by many cultures/nations like William Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille, and Euripides they all brought different ideas from different cultures like romance, comedy, action, sad stories and happy ones. The genres we see in movies now started off with these playwrights. It impacted a lot now we see more genres and different version of the ones listed.
The founders of Spanish Golden Age Theatre are a group of people within Spain who wanted to bring acting into their culture a century after Spain was emerged as a European power. Like any other activities there's always someone who develops the activity better , in the Spanish Golden Age Theatre our key figure is Calderon de la Barca. Calderon de la Barca is the reason why Spanish Golden Age Theatre is as big and famous as we know it now.
In the 16th century when Spanish Golden Age Theatre was created women were not allowed to participate in the plays. Women roles were played by men, some agreed to that but other's didn't. After 3-4 decades later Women were allowed to star in plays.
Spanish Golden Age Theatre is a interesting live theatre developed by Calderon de la Barca. The term 'Golden Age' is used to describe what is broadly the Early Modern period in Spain, a time of extraordinary artistic flowering. Later on in the 16th/17th centuries people of Spain thought live theatre was very important to arts of Spanish society. That's how Spanish Golden Age Theatre began.
Religious Drama is based on the mystery of the Eucharist by mixing the human, supernatural, and allegorical. Religious drama was performed in two or four carros around madrid and other cities around spain.
Mid-15th century they performed by professional acting troupes and mixed civic and religious authority.