Jonathan W Thacker 
A Companion to Golden Age Theatre [PDF ebook] 

This Companion is a readable and up-to-date guide to all aspects of the extraordinary flowering of theatre in Early-Modern Spain.


Spain’s artistic Golden Age produced Cervantes’s great novel,
Don Quijote, the sublime poetry of Quevedo and Góngora, and nurtured the prodigious talent of Velázquez, and yet it was the theatre that captured the imaginationof its people. Men and women of all social classes flocked to the new playhouses to see and hear the latest offerings of their favourite dramatists, and to be seen and heard.

As well as dealing with the lives and major works of the most significant playwrights of the period – Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca – the
Companion focusses on other aspects of the growth and maturing of Golden Age theatre, reflecting the interests and priorities of modern scholarship. These include: the sixteenth-century origins of the
comedia nueva; the lesser-known dramatists, including women playwrights; life in the theatre; the Corpus Christi street theatre and minor genres; performance studies; and the critical reception of the drama. The
Companion also contains a guide to
comedia versification, a full bibliography and advice on further reading.


JONATHAN THACKER is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

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The Emergence of the
comedia nueva

Lope de Vega

Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, and the First Generation

Calderón and the
comedia’s Second Generation

Staging and Performance

Types of
comedia and other Forms of Theatre

A Brief History of Reception

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JONATHAN THACKER is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.