Spanish Literature

Question 1

Second most famous Spanish Golden Age playwright of plays such as Life is a Dream about Polish prince Segismundo and The Mayor of Zalamea about when the title character finds out a nobleman has raped his daughter.

Answer 1

Pedro Calderon

Question 2

Author of Don Quixote who also wrote 12 novella in the Italian style in the collection Exemplary Novels, and La Galatea, an examination of love amongst a backdrop of pastoral life.

Answer 2

Miguel de Cervantes

Question 3

Author of The House of Bernarda Alba, in which tensions are caused by the title character’s declaration of an 8 year period of mourning for her husband, exacerbated by the arrival of the handsome Pepe El Romano. In Blood Wedding, just before the Bride is married to the Groom, Leonardo convinces the Bride to run away with him, causing a feud which eventually results in Leonardo and the Groom killing each other. He also wrote Yerma, about the title character’s yearning for motherhood and her eventual killing of her apathetic husband. Those three plays are grouped together as this man’s Rural Trilogy.

Answer 3

Frederic Garcia Lorca

Question 4

The greatest Spanish golden age playwright of Fuenteovejuna (also called The Sheep Well) in which peasants kill their abusive commander and then when interrogated say that “Fuenteovejuna did it.” He also wrote The Dog in the Manger inspired by the title fable in which Diana won’t let Teodoro marry her maid but also won’t marry him herself.

Answer 4

Lope de Vega