Spanish Renaissance

Women

First appear on stage in Spain? Not allowed without father or husband in company, concern about women becoming prostitutes backstage, women eventually can appear onstage without crazy rules

Spanish playwrights

Make spain international force. Continue to be admired. Desire to stem from all classes, influence from Italian and English.

Pit

Men in here with noisemaker devices

Caroos

Moved place to place, pulled by bulls with guilded horns

Spain's power

Powerful in geographic exploration, most powerful nation in the world and reflected in Drama. Religious and secular drama, Religious drama not done with moors, church supports religious drama but its suppressed elsewhere

Lope de Vega

Prolific playwright, plays still exist, thousands, subjects drawn from bible, saints, myth, history, romances, and other sources. Highly formulaic and compared to Shakespeare. Song and dance with comic and serious. Fuentes Avajuno

Loa

Prologue, performance began w singing and dancing. Conclusion with dance

Court theatre

Proscenium arch, public didn't pay more for nicer theatre, rich did, reached height and includes outdoor productions, calderon wrote many.

Costumes

Similar to England. A few historical/everydaypeople with old fashioned/fancy/ outlandish costumes. Actors dress as lavish as possible, most in own costumes, periodically regulations on women costumes. Lavish no matter what roles. Costumes could be valuable, bad actors ? wardrobes.

Autosacramentales

Similar to morality and cycle plays, their stories came from any source, allegorical characters, historical figures. Requirement illustrate efficacy sacrament (church dogma/beliefs), can be written in cycles given in madrid. Calderon's. Companies rewarded exclusive rightts public performance Easter to Corpus Cristi

Alojeria

Tavern/refreshment stand

2 permanent theatres

coral de la cruz, coral del principe

Patio

for men

Time period

1580-1680

Acting companies

2 types. Sharing troupes and troops sal redactors? work for manager, everyone had a stake in troop and shared profits. 16-20 people. Men, women, and apprentices. Women appear on stage in spain before other parts of Europe and England. Toured their plays after they premiered, contracts with individual towns, plays subject to censorship, if found immoral author could be excommunicated

Theatres

A lot like english theatres.

Facade

All locations served, curtains cover, partially drawn to reveal portions or it for discoveries

Cazuela

Area for women in back of refreshment stand, at back of pit

Corrales

Areas where public performances given in open air theatres.

Cofraides

Charities connected to church control, money to church and actors (entrance fees)

Autosacramentales performances

City council establishes locations, first day given before king in palace, second day to a powerful gov group, third day to city council, then to public

Cosme Lotti

Designer from florence, trained under perigee, pART OF GROUP DESIGNERS FOR DE MEDICI FAMILY, came into residence Italian sets, constructed colliseum!

Lope De Rudea

Dramatist, actor, producer, credited establishing professional theatre in spain

Fall theatre

Rebellions, decline in theatrical activity. Portuguese rebel. Cosmalatte dies, queen dies, wars and death lead to end of court theatre. public theatres close as well. theatre later revivied with phillip, and colisseum reopened, but golden age is over.

Pre renaissance

Religious conflict. Muslims/Jews/Protestants/Catholics. Spanish inquisition to eliminate not believing in christianity (heresy), drive those people out. Spain unites as a country when Isabella and Ferdinand who each controlled a region of Spain marry, before that political unrest makes theatre a distant dream. Golden age fostered

Other elements theatres

Roofed platform with benches around patio Performance areas at one end courtyard, rent space at windows 2 galleries one divided into boxes other open Raised platform permanent facade No curtain/proscem=nium Seating areas come up close Facade 2 pillars, area into 3 openings Entrances on side, discovery space in middle 2nd level facade also a gallery (used like in England) Used medieval mansions Italian staging come into being at court floating stage wtf coercer's palace 3 prodigees, 3 separate stages, each perform diff prof troop

Actors

Treated with tolerance but could not contradict church. Good actors can be paid more than playwrights. Authorities can crack down on troops or individual. Sing and dance, most are commoners. Actors guild to imperative social status. Strenuous life, constantly rehearsing and performing throughout the days. Paid after each performance, sometimes in evening for officials and nobility

Calderon

W/ his death spanish theater ceased to be vital force, but plays still admired today

Secular drama

While autosacramentales still in existene. Short farcical interludes and dances. Classics spread in spain, part of education system, early secular aristocratic audience, later dramatists rely on for model. Had to respect church

Tirso Molina

Wrote deceiver of seville, 1st dramatic treatment Don Juan story/legend. Explore tensions ambition and forces destiny. Contain religious elements in them and some of most famous works are sacred plays

Boxes

special seating areas in private houses

Wagons

where plays are performed, like medieval drama.