The tastes and interests of the nobility weighed in different ways on the theatrical spectacle of the Golden Age. If on the one hand the court nobility produced theatrical entertainments for their own consumption and that of the prince, the Entradas Reales, mainly produced by the municipality, also hosted shows whose configuration and content were determined by the presence of the royal person and his entourage. Nor should we forget the pressure that the ideology of the nobility could exert on certain genres, such as genealogical comedy, as evidenced by the documentation on Lope de Vega's commission of a couple of comedies of this kind. the selected relations and texts illustrate the different modes and degrees of influence on the diversified golden age theatricality.... [Leer más...]