Lope+de+Rueda

He was born early in the sixteenth century in [|Seville], where, according to [|Cervantes] , he worked as a metal-beater. His name first occurs in 1554 as acting at Benavente, and between 1558 and 1561 he was manager of a strolling company which visited [|Segovia], Seville, [|Toledo] , [|Madrid] , [|Valencia] and [|Córdoba]. In the last-named city de Rueda fell ill, and on March 21, 1565 made a will which he was too exhausted to sign; he probably died shortly afterwards, and is said by Cervantes to have been buried in Córdoba cathedral. He was twice married; first to actress, singer and dancer, Mariana, who had spent six years as a performer in service to the frail and inferm Don Gaston, Duke de Medinaceli, an avowed friar and cleric,whose estate was the subject of a lawsuit filed by Lope de Rueda on his wife's behalf laying claim to six years of back wages. de Rueda's second marriage was to Rafaela Angela, a Valenciana and woman of property, who bore him a daughter. His works were issued posthumously in 1567 by [|Timoneda], who toned down certain passages in the texts. de Rueda's more ambitious plays are mostly adapted from the [|Italian] ; in //Eufemia// he draws on [|Boccaccio], in //Med ora// he utilizes [|Giancarli] 's //Zingara//, in //Arinelina// he combines [|Raineri] 's //Attilia// with [|Cecchi] 's //Servigiale//, and in //Los Engañados// he uses //Glingannati//, a comedy produced by the Intronati, a literary society at [|Siena]. These follow the original so closely that they give no idea of de Rueda's talent; but in his //pasos// or prose interludes he displays an abundance of riotous humour, great knowledge of low life, and a most happy gift of dialogue. His predecessors mostly wrote for courtly audiences or for the study; de Rueda with his strollers created a taste for the drama which he was able to gratify, and he is admitted both by Cervantes and [|Lope de Vega] to be the true founder of the national theatre. His works have been reprinted by the marqués de Fuensanta del Valle in the //Colección de libros raros curiosos//, vols. xxiii. and xxiv. Nineteen of the 26 pasos were [translated] [|[1]] into English between 1980 and 1990 by Joan Bucks Hansen, and staged by Steve Hansen and the St. George Street Players of St. Augustine,FL where they were performed nightly for five years in the city's restored Spanish Quarter; and they presented seven of the translations in 1984 at the Ninth Siglo de Oro Festival at Chamizal. Source: ([])
 * Lope de Rueda** (1510?, [|Seville] - 1565, [|Córdoba]) was a [|Spanish] [|dramatist] and [|author], regarded by some as the best of his era. A very versatile writer, he also wrote [|comedies], [|farces], and [|pasos]. He was the precursor to what is considered the golden age of [|Spanish literature].



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 * Plays/Pasos:**
 * Los Criados
 * La Caraula
 * Cornudo y Contento
 * El Convidado
 * La Tierra de Jauja
 * Pagar y No Pagar
 * Las Aceitunas
 * El Bollo Mantecado
 * Los Ladrones
 * Los Desposorios
 * Madrigalejo
 * El Rufiano Cobarde
 * Los Turrones Perdidos
 * Los Duelistas
 * El Remedio
 * La Gitana
 * La Hojaldra
 * El Sueno
 * El Raton


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