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_aVega, Lope de, _d1562-1635 |
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | _aArte nuevo de hacer comedias. English |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe new art of writing plays |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-23 | ||
| 508 | _aAl Haines | ||
| 520 | _a"The new art of writing plays by Lope de Vega" is a dramaturgical treatise in verse from the Spanish Golden Age, likely the early 17th century. It outlines how to craft stage plays that satisfy audience taste while engaging with classical theory, blending practical stagecraft with a poet’s reflections on comedy and tragedy. The book opens with a contextual introduction that sets the author alongside the great innovators of popular theater and frames his core paradox: he knows the classical rules yet openly breaks them to please the paying crowd. The central poem addresses an academy, briefly surveys the origins of comedy and tragedy, and then offers concise, practice-first guidance: choose a single, coherent action; build plays in three acts; compress time where possible; keep the stage seldom empty; delay the resolution until the final moments; and mix tragic and comic tones for variety. It advises writing the plan in prose before versifying, matching speech to character and situation, and using distinct verse forms for different purposes (for lament, narration, high matters, or love). It favors themes of honor and virtue, warns against impossibilities and open satire, prescribes moderate length, and urges decorum and plausible costume. The author closes by acknowledging his own vast, rule-breaking output and defending it on the grounds that playwrights must live by pleasing the public. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Dramatic Museum of Columbia University, 1914 |
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| 653 | _aDrama -- Technique | ||
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_aMatthews, Brander, _d1852-1929 |
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_aBrewster, W. T. _q(William Tenney), _d1869-1961 |
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