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Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolome de Torres Naharro, Volume 4
In this fourth volume of Joseph E. Gillet's monumental study, Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolomé 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 commonplaces 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 Spa...
