Spain Flashcards
Spain’s beliefs
- want everyone to be the same
- like dominance and majority
Spanish Inquisition
- ferdinand and isabel got permission from pope to catholizize everyone (focus on mooors and jews)
- church dosen’t recogize forced baptizm, they don thave power over non catholics (enough socail pressure to catch you if you are pretending to be catholic)
- pretty significant loss of life (150,00 moors and jews were executed)
- lots of force expulsion, emigration (many to north africa)
Expansion and Colonization
- Columbus (under catholic spanish monarchy) “discovers” america in 1492
Secular Drama
religious drama
- focused on morality
- love and honour
- HONOURR omg big thing
Types of Secular Drama
- translated plays
travelling street theatre ?commedy?
theatre buildings (usually 1 troupe per city) (held in a bit higher regard than england or japan)
playwright vs actors
- actors didnt do that bad, salary
- playwrights get 500 reales for 1 play ?!!! they had to write 12 plays a year (that would do well) in order to make the same as an actor
Spain was highkey pumping out plays
Commedia
term used for a full length secular plays
- cape and sword
- pastoral
- corpse (cuerpo) - reviving historical figures
- mythological
- machine / noisey (ruido)
Women?
- at first prohibited as performers
- 1587 - ALLOWED to perform in secular drama
- 1597- BANNED from performing
- 1599- ALLOWED (only if you were related to someone in theatre troupe)
playwrights:
- their plays were not performed during their lifetimes
- ideas of gender roles and rights love and honour
- sor juana ines de la cruz
fear of cross gender dressing
we don’t like women on stage but we also don’t like boys dressed as women SO WHAT THE FUCK THEN
Corrales (theatre spaces)
- built in curyards (between houses)
thouse houses were owned by rich people who raise money
- eventually control was given to city officials cuz they were who was giving licenses to troupes
parts of theatre
- patio (like groundlings)
- Escenario - stage
- Gradas - seating area thats raked
- bars so ppl dont crawl into your house
- aposento - private boxes higher up
- Alojero - SNACK BAR (roudy)
- corrales could hold 1000-2000 spectators
performance structure
- dance / music interlude
loa (prologue) - dance / music interlude
- commedia
-more dance and music interlude
Women spectators
- Women not encouraged to attend
- sat in the back behind a screen (cazuela) if no male accompaning them (protect identity or protect women from men)
- men and women together could only sit together in the aposento ONLY if they prove they are related
Lope de vega
(aka monster of nature or pheonix of wits)
wrote between 500 - 1000 plays
is bro shitting out plays what the heck
- love action honour, and happy ending
- had quite a life
- has very complex characters that could be contradictory (quite lie himself)
combines tragedy and comedy cuz thats life
three act structure
even peasants speak in poetic verse (everyoneee yay)
different verse structures depending on the mood and action = more truthful??
departures from classical tradition
fuentovejuna ( the sheep well)
1612-1614
- not an original idea based on historical source kinda
(time of great unrest)
- play is about the beef betweens spain and portugal
- theres many ballets of this apparantly
plot:
3 locations:
- palace portugal
- the village,
- ferdinand and isabellas spanish court
- bad guy tryna take land from spain
- that land ppl dont wanna go to portugal
- bad guy tries to rape lorencia then complains to council
- town council is like nah bro you suck
- isabella and ferdinand win
- lorencia gets kidnapped and arrested: tells men to fight collects women to fight
- the village kick commanders ass
- no vilagers will confess to who killed the commander (they all just say the title of the play)
- village stands against corruption HOORAY
- ferdinand and isable pardon all the villagers
THEMES:
power and authority:
vega is kinda kissing ass to the government rn cant lie
strong tie to economy - agricultural importance
kinda a feminist play cuz of lorencia
how the violation of women dishonours men. ok sure.
