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Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolome de Torres Naharro, Volume 4 - Torres Haharro and the Drama of the Rensaissance (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)
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Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolome de Torres Naharro, Volume 4 - Torres Haharro and the Drama of the Rensaissance (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)
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In this fourth volume of Joseph E. Gillet's monumental study,
Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolome De Torres Naharro, all
students of Renaissance drama will find a wealth of material on the
origins of the modern European theater. Torres Naharro created the
cloak-and-sword play almost a century before Lope de Vega. The
common-places of romantic comedy appeared, for the first time on
any stage, in his Comedia Ymenea published at Naples in 1517. Two
of his works, the Soldadesca and the Tinellaria--evocations of the
roistering life of the barracks and of a cardinal's scullery--are
remarkable examples of dramatic realism avant Ia lettre. The
influence of Torres Naharro and his work on the Spanish drama of
the sixteenth century was all pervasive. In this volume, all the
material gleaned by Dr. Gillet in extensive research is brought
into clear focus to show Torres Naharro as a man of the Renaissance
and a man of the theater. Of the greatest interest is the
exposition of his intuition of the distinction between poetic and
historic truth--commedias a fantasia and a noticia--long before the
recovery of the true text of Aristotle's Poetics, and of the
substratum of primitivism in many of his plays: ritual societies,
the medicine man, the right to tribute, social discipline, name
changing, loss of memory, sports, games, acrobatics, sorcery,
riddles, genealogies, weddings, propitiation and death song,
resuscitation, license and chastity, and so on. And this dramatic
activity occurred early, antedating most of the Italian plays of
the sixteenth century.
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