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Tirso de Molina

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Tirso de Molina (c. 1571–1648)

Spanish dramatist and monk. He claimed to have written more than 300 plays, of which 80 are extant, including comedies, historical and biblical dramas, and a series based on the legend of Don Juan.



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9780820433103 The Achillean hero in the plays of Tirso de Molina.
To this he adds a perceptive analysis of a famous sequence in Don Quixote climaxed by the puppet theater of Maese Pedro (alias picaro Gines de Pasamonte) revealing how Cervantes creates therein a microcosm and history of the early stages of Spanish theater, a poetics of jongleuresque performance, and an image of the survival of those traditions alongside the vigorous growth of classical Spanish theater in the seventeenth century shaped by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca.
10) Literary manifestations praising the playwright are not limited to this collection of his works, in fact, Tirso de Molina expresses his adoration for Benavente's interludes in his comedia titled Tanto es lo de mas como lo de Menos (7) as well as for his bailes in Cigarrales de Toledo (219).
 
 
 
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