Playwrights
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Los habladores
Cervantes changed a lot of prose and poetry to create inter-screen short plays, most notably Los habladores.
El juez de los divorcios
The Judge of Divorces is a comedy published in 1615 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra . This work was written during the Baroque and coincides with the Golden Age.
Lope de Vega
Fuenteovejuna
The play is based upon a historical incident that took place in the village of Fuenteovejuna in Castile, now called Fuente Obejuna in Andalusia, in 1476. While under the command of the Order of Calatrava, a commander, Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, mistreated the villagers, who banded together and killed him.
When a magistrate sent by King Ferdinand II of Aragon arrived at the village to investigate, the villagers, even under the pain of torture, responded only by saying "Fuenteovejuna did it."
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
It is a philosophical allegory regarding the human situation and the mystery of life.The play has been described as "the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama".
The story focuses on the fictional Segismundo, Prince of Poland, who has been imprisoned in a tower by his father, King Basilio, following a dire prophecy that the prince would bring disaster to the country and death to the King. Basilio briefly frees Segismundo, but when the prince goes on a rampage, the king imprisons him again, persuading him that it was all a dream.
La vida es sueño