Theatre - History of Theatre I: Biographies

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Collection of short biographies.

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Preface -- Chronology -- Age of Calderon -- Comedia -- Spanish theater of the golden age -- Facets of Calderon's dramatic and poetic art -- Cloak-and-sword plays -- Costumbristic plays -- Religious dramas -- Historical plays -- Honor tragedies -- Mythological plays -- Philosophical plays -- Calderon's minor theater -- Calderon and the critics -- Notes and references -- Selected bibliography -- Index.