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Luis Quiñones de Benavente

Personal information
Surname: Quiñones de Benavente
First name: Luis
Born: ?1581, Toledo, Spain
Died: 1651
Biography

Luis Quiñones de Benavente was born in Toledo in either 1581 (Thacker and Durán) or 1593 (Bergman and Constable). He was ordained a priest in Toledo before moving to Madrid. There he wr... (Read more...)

Themes

Benavente wrote short plays on as many themes as there are comic situations. He poked fun at all walks of life, especially people aspiring to be higher up in social or authoritative str... (Read more...)

Style

As Benavente focused his career on short comic plays and dance pieces, writing no full-length plays, he was able to develop a very well-established and polished style. It was unusual a... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Useful reading and websites
  • Bergman, Hannah E. 1972. Luis Quiñones de Benavente. New York, Twayne

    For La capeadora see pp. 102-5

  • Madroñal Durán, Abraham. 2003. ‘Quiñones de Benavente y el teatro breve’. Historia del teatro español I, ed. Javier Huerta Calvo, pp. 1025-68. Madrid, Gredos. (in Spanish)

  • Thacker, Jonathan. 2007. ‘Types of Comedia and Other Forms of Theatre’. A Companion to Golden Age Theatre, pp. 143-69. Woodbridge, Tamesis

Entry written by Kathleen Jeffs. Last updated on 23 September 2010.

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