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| A series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century. |
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| auto sacramental (or just “auto”) |
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Spanish dramatic genre that reached its height in the 17th century. Performed as part of Corpus Christi. Short allegorical plays in verse dealing with some aspect of the mystery of the Holy Eucharist. Mounted on carts, much as the scriptural plays of the Netherlands and northern England had been presented on pageant wagons during the Middle Ages. Expenses for these superbly set and dressed autos were paid by the municipality. |
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| Processional staging was particularly popular in Spain. The wagons, called carros, on which the scenery was mounted were positioned next to platforms that had been erected in every town. Beneath the raised platform was a curtained space with room for the actors. |
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| teatrum mundi: the world as theater |
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The world of the stage, of roles, masks, parts to play has been one of the most enduring ways of speaking about life and the world we live in. In fact, until four hundred years ago, the theatrum mundi metaphor was the dominant image in Western thinking. God was conceived on the analogy of a playwright who had created the script of the play that was being performed on the stage called the world. |
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| theatricalism/metatheatricality |
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| The relationship between dreams/imagination theater and reality; can give a clearer sense of reality or destabilize an idea of reality |
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| Disillusionment; Preoccupation with the idea that everything is an illusion we must escape |
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| Open air theater in cortyards built near/in monestaries/monastary complexes. Monks would sponser plays and use the money/profits to do social good (philanthropy).This helped to legitimize theater. |
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| A special boxlike gallery in the theater (corrales), called the cazuela, the “stewpot,” was assigned to women spectators. Above the cazuela were galleries for members of the city government, the clergy, and the aristocracy. |
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(1562-1635)
Outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, author of as many as 1,800 plays and several hundred shorter dramatic pieces, of which 431 plays and 50 shorter pieces are extant.
Reputation as: Crazily prolific; wild man |
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| Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
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1600-1681
The Great Theater of the World
Dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age.
He was a priest, very much celebrated and endorsed by the court.
Wrote hundreds of autos. |
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