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Ana Caro De Mallén
Ana Caro de Mallén was a poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age theatre, Spanish Golden Age. Life Ana María Caro de Mallén y Torres, one of the few women writers of the 17th century, was believed to be born between 1590 and 1600 as a morisco slave and was adopted by Gabriel Caro de Mallén and Ana María de Torres. Many assumed she was Don Juan Caro de Mallén y Soto's sister, and that she was born in either Granada or Seville. In Seville, she began writing poetry and competing in poetry contests. Ana Caro's poetry reflects her society. It also demonstrated a close coalition between her and the monarchy. Caro appears to have died of the Plague (disease), plague between 1645 and 1660. Career Caro de Mallén's career took off when she published poetry and studies on festivals and cultural activities in 1628. When she published ''Contexto de las reales fiestas madrilenas del Buen Retiro'' in 1637, she had already moved to Madrid. Many of her male counterparts, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Spanish Golden Age theatre refers to theatre in Spain roughly between 1590 and 1681. Spain emerged as a European power after it was unified by the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469 and then claimed for Christianity at the Siege of Granada in 1492. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a monumental increase in the production of live theatre as well as in the importance of the arts within Spanish society. Overview Theatre was an accessible art form for all participants in Renaissance Spain, being both highly sponsored by the aristocratic class and highly attended by the lower classes. The volume and variety of Spanish plays during the Golden Age was unprecedented in the history of world theatre, surpassing even the dramatic production of the English Renaissance by a factor of at least four. This volume has been as much a source of criticism as praise for Spanish Golden Age theatre, for emphasizing quantity before quality. A large number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
