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Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina , pseud. of Fray Gabriel Téllez , 1584?-1648, outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid. His fame rests on El burlador de Sevilla (1630; tr. The Love Rogue, 1924), the earliest known literary version of the Don Juan legend. Among the 300 or 400 plays by... Read more |
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno , 1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b. Bilbao. The chief Spanish philosopher of his time, he was professor of Greek at the Univ. of Salamanca and later rector there. His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused... Read more |
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Toledo
Toledo city (1990 pop. 60,671), capital of Toledo province, central Spain, in Castile-La Mancha, on a granite hill surrounded on three sides by a gorge of the Tagus River. Historically and culturally it is one of the most important cities of Spain. Tourism is its most important industry, and... Read more |
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Felix Lope de Vega Carpio
Félix Lope de Vega Carpio , 1562-1635, Spanish dramatic poet, founder of the Spanish drama, b. Madrid. Lope, born a peasant, was orphaned at an early age. He wrote the first of his nearly 1,800 plays at 12, and by 25 he was an established playwright and a celebrated wit. He was involved in... Read more |
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Pedro de Ona
Pedro de Oña , 1570?-1643, Chilean poet. Having been born in Latin America, he is considered Chile's first national poet. His poetry is both epic and religious. Inspired by La aravcana, by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga , he wrote the epic Arauco domado (1596; tr. Arauco... Read more |
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El Greco
El Greco , c.1541-1614, Greek painter in Spain, b. Candia (Iráklion), Crete. His real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos, of which several Italian and Spanish versions are current. Trained first in the Byzantine school of icon painting, in 1567 he went to Venice, where he is known to have... Read more |
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Luis Velez de Guevara
Luis Vélez de Guevara , 1579?-1644, Spanish playwright and novelist. He was a follower of Lope de Vega and wrote many popular plays noted for their poetic quality. Among these the most important are La luna de la sierra [the mountain moon] and Reinar después de morir [to reign... Read more |
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Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla , 1876-1946, Spanish composer; pupil of Felipe Pedrell. In Paris from 1907 to 1914, he met Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, and was to some extent influenced by their impressionism. His music, however, remained distinctively Spanish, rooted both in Andalusian folk music and the classical... Read more |
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Escorial
Escorial or Escurial , monastery and palace, in New Castile, central Spain, near Madrid. One of the finest edifices in Europe, it was built (1563-84) as the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial by Philip II to commemorate the Spanish victory over the French at Saint-Quentin (1557). The somber... Read more |
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El Capitan
El Capitan (1896), a comic opera by Charles Klein (book), John Philip Sousa (music, lyrics), Tom Frost (lyrics). [Broadway Theatre, 112 perf.] Don Medigua ( De Wolf Hopper), the viceroy of Peru, captures the rebel El Capitan, executes him, and assumes his place in disguise. The rebels capture... Read more |
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Salvador Dalí: ¿Mejor Escritor que Pintor?
...de los grandes: Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Miguel Angel, Durero...surrealismo de 1924 y pone en acción el método paranoicocrítico, un sistema activo a partir de la irracionalidad, el sueño, la alucinación, la paranoia, un método... |
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LA RECREACIÓN DEL MITO EN EL TEATRO DE ALFONSO SASTRE: INVERSIÓN E...
...interpretaciones. Engendrados por el subconciente y elaborados...la sociedad humana. En el siglo XX los mitos clásicos...sociedades o culturas creadas a partir de obras o figuras de...Representaciones del Drama Greco-Romano de la Universidad...Este valerse ... |
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MITO E IDENTIDAD FEMENINA. LOS CAMBIOS DE LA IMAGEN DE PENÉLOPE EN EL TEATRO...
...modelos a seguir. Como el origen de nuestra cultura radica en la Antigüedad greco-latina, no es sorprendente...configuraciones mitológicas en el arte y la literatura occidentales...allá del siglo XIX. A partir del siglo XX se realiza...numerosas ocasiones. ... |
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Cabeza de Vaca
...durante el traslado de Alvar Nunez en el rio, o la imagen de la balsa, esa...parece estampa tenebrista de un cuadro de El Greco, son de una belleza estética impactante. Otros elementos no visuales refuerzan el efecto artistico de la ausencia ... |
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Tolérance, Pluralisme & Histoire
...protestantes que ejercieran el culto en privado que, a partir de 1763, año en que...de la tolerancia y el humanismo jurídico...de la antigüedad greco-latina de tolerancia...espiritual del hombre (en el sentido no religioso...notable ... |