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autos sacramentales

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autos sacramentales

Spanish drama form, related to the mystery plays in England, and well established by the 13th century. These traditional performances were redeveloped in the 17th century by dramatists Lope de Vega and Calderón, whose masterpiece in this form is El gran teatro del mundo/The Great Theatre of the World (1641).
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He maintains that the Lopean comedia is a development of the juglares' art and often of the very historical-legendary ballads they performed, while the religious tropes usually identified as its origins developed instead into autos sacramentales.
Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish ... by Greer, Margaret R. / Renaissance Quarterly
3) But perhaps the most welcome development in Calderonian studies in recent years has been the focus on the playwright's autos sacramentales.
Drama in Golden-Age Spain: the state of the art by Pym, Richard / Shakespeare Studies
For those who tend to think of this period in terms of theocentric autos sacramentales and the ascetic lessons of desengano, Salazar's comedy points to another tradition, one characterized by a moderate anti-authoritarianism and an acceptance of a more relaxed lay morality.
El encanto es la hermosura y el hechizo sin hechizo. La segunda ... by Weber, Alison P. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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