Philip II influenced the art of Spain’s golden age by expanding Spanish influence and helped foster a Spanish golden age by supporting the arts. The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro in Spanish) was an era of high artistic endeavor and attainment that happened from about 1580 to 1680.
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During this period, Velázquez and El Greco painted their masterworks, and Cervantes wrote his popular satirical novel, Don Quixote. The theater also appreciated a golden period in playwriting and acting, producing plays to rival the Elizabethan and Jacobean playwriters who wrote at the same time.
Theater historians commonly claimed that plays from the Golden Age were very traditional and very focused with a narrow code of honor to attract a wide audience, but current scholarship has confirmed that the plays are as challenging, interesting, and relevant as the creations of most English and French language playwrights from a period of time. In fact, the plans for many seventeenth-century English and French plays were occupied from Spanish drama.
The most famous plays of the time were the philosophical drama "Life Is a Dream" by Calderón, the historical drama “The Trickster of Seville" about Don Juan, a legendary lover, by Tirso de Molina, and "Fuente Ovejuna" by Lope de Vega. There were also famous comedies, jokes, tragedies, and religious dramas by the playwrights. Female playwrights’ comedies (Ana Caro, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Angela de Azevedo, and María de Zayas) were recently translated and discovered.
The three main forms of the Golden Age theater are auto sacramental, the comedia, and entremés. Autos sacramentales are one-act allegories of religion, and entremeses are the one-act play that was originally staged between acts of full comedia. Comedians is three-act dramas composed in verse, which combine comic and serious elements in multifaceted plots that usually emphasize disguises, intrigue, swordplay, and music.
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KEYWORDS : Spain’s Golden Age, Philip II, playwrights, comedies, drama
Subject : History
Class : 10-12
Sub-Chapter : Spain’s Golden Age
