Entremés, is a short,
comic theatrical performance of one
act, usually played during the interlude of a performance of a long
dramatic work, in the 16th and 17th centuries in
Spain. Later, it became the
sainete.[1][2][3][4]
When the genre begun, it was written both in
prose and
verse (poetry), but after
Luis Quiñones de Benavente (1600–1650) defined the genre, all works were written in verse. The usual characters of the entremés were the common people; the plot usually
satirized the customs and the occupations of the characters, subjects that couldn't be treated in the dramatic works during which the entremés works were played.
Sometimes the playings included songs that were the origin of another genre, the
tonadilla.
^The Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses: A Bilingual and Annotated ...
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Peter E. Thompson - 2009 -
For many of these companies, actors, and playwrights the entremés was their professional mainstay. Notwithstanding these facts, the significant role that the entremés played during the most important period of theatre in Spain has been much ...
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A Companion to Golden Age Theatre - Page 156 1855661403
Jonathan Thacker - 2007
For Torres Naharro, the entremes was a musical entertainment, and throughout most of the sixteenth century it was one of the words which could refer to any short play. Lope de Rueda used the term pasos to describe his short farcical scenes ...
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The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor of the Spanish Golden Age 0802089690
Peter E. Thompson - 2006
In the Spanish Golden Age, the entremés was presented between the acts of the main production and, as such, was an integral part of the seventeenth-century theatrical experience. This historical fact and, hence, the significant role that the ...
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Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula 0313287325
Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, Janet Pérez - 1993
Benavente's role in the development of the entremes was comparable to that of Lope de 'Vega in drama. Besides writing more entremeses than any of his contemporaries (150 are attributed to him), Quinones de Benavente was the major .
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