Theatre of the Golden

As discussed in the first half of the fourteenth century Spain had been converted into arbiter of Europe under the imperial crown of Charles V, extending his dominions by Italy Germany and the Netherlands, and it was logical to expect that after the political apogee ubiera a flourishing intellectual literature would have its brightest manifestations.

The Italian influence on Spanish literature accelerated in this century. in decasílabo, alone or combined decasílabo, then became one of the two classical meters of Spanish poetry, the other was the octasilabo.

Gines de Hita (1544-1619), with its civil wars of Granada, a work translated into most European languages, gives way to romantic ballads and threads on the continent awakens great interest by the Arabs, the presented in its most romantic and chivalrous.

In the sixteenth century did not exist in France over the theater Permanente burgones hotel in Paris, founded by cofrados dedicadoo the mission and the theater of the Middle Ages. even after after 1548, when an order of parliament banned the production of the mysteries, these brothers continued to enjoy a monopoly of public performances until 1599. therefore, the Renaissance playwrights had had their works representing esenarios inprovisados, and many tragedis and comedies of that time were released not ever, resulting in a theater designed more to the reading.

We got back to the theater, literary genre constitutes true synthesis of all that was, especialemente therefore refers to the golden age. the immense variety that flocked to the scene in this period gives the classic Spanish theater character of an encyclopedia of the brightest moment in the history of Spain.

Until the late seventeenth century, dramatic literature, was shaping his character mereced to a set of actors who, if not glowing in the front row instead possess the virtue of having abiertopaso lopex writers like Vega, Tirso de Molina and calderon . between predesse distingen: Bartolome de Torres Nahas, I find the original path followed by the Spanish drama in the seventeenth century, the Portuguese Gil Vicente who owed cars, comedies and farces tragicomedies; lopes wheel, creator of the steps small works concise and graceful constumbrist announcing the theater; juan de cuva, I try to reflect in their works the national epiritu legendary, and even Timoneda who also wrote steps lopes style of wheel and under several Latin comedies.