RT Journal Article
T1 La primera puesta en escena de "Los tres mayores prodigios" de Calderón
T2 The first staging of Calderón's Three Greatest Prodigies
A1 Fernández Mosquera, Santiago
AB The first performance of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El mayor encanto, amor in 1635 was extravagant, elaborate, costly, and even dangerous due to the dazzling lighting and other stage effects. Somewhat chastened, the following year the playwright showed a more subdued side as he devised a full evening of theatrical spectacle for the Noche de San Juan (Midsummer Night) in June 1636. This article recreates the performance context of the drama that anchored this theatrical féte: Los tres mayores prodigios. An examination of the surviving play text and prologue reveal reduced stage machinery, with the spectacular elements elicited from some changes in the configuration of the stage and within the play's dramatic action. The result was a sophisticated performance that transformed the lush garden of the Palacio del Buen Retiro into a quint-essentially baroque theater, with a new Plaza Grande deployed to fit three different stages that could be seen properly both by the king and the public.
PB San Diego State University
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31865
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31865
LA spa
NO Mosquera, S.F. (2019). La primera puesta en escena de Los tres mayores prodigios de Calderón. Bulletin of the Comediantes 71(1), 171-186. https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2019.0011
NO Financiado por el Plan Galego IDT da Xunta de Galicia, GRC, 2019-2022, ED431C 2019/03.
DS Minerva
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