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Propalladia

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  • Bartolomé de Torres Naharro

    Entitled the Propalladia (“The First Things of Pallas”), they were prefaced with a discourse on dramatic art that distinguished between tragedy and comedy, a distinction that was lost in later Spanish drama. He classified his own plays as comedias “a noticia,” treating “things noted and seen in…

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    Entitled the Propalladia (“The First Things of Pallas”), they were prefaced with a discourse on dramatic art that distinguished between tragedy and comedy, a distinction that was lost in later Spanish drama. He classified his own plays as comedias “a noticia,” treating “things noted and seen in…

    Read More