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- El juez de los divorcios
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El juez de los divorcios (1610-1615), Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Scene
This entremés (a short, one-act play) takes place in one continuous time and location.
- Staging
Representative costuming would help to indicate the professions of the judge, the soldier and the barber-surgeon (who is dressed above his real role, as he is only a minor physician and he is dressed as a proper, much more respectable, doctor). The coal-carrier is described as wearing a hood, typical of his profession. Apart from this, unless there is a desire to locate the play in a courtroom, there is no call for any particular set or staging and it could easily be performed, as it was probably intended to be, on a bare stage.
- Cast number
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Minimum Maximum 9 males 9 males 3 females 3 females 12 (total) 12 (total) - Cast information
- There could be a lot of creative doubling to reduce the cast size needed, or it could be increased with more musicians, townsfolk and dancers.
- Characters
- JUDGE
- NOTARY
- ATTORNEY
- OLD MAN
- MARIANA
- SOLDIER
- GUIOMAR
- SURGEON
- ALDONZA
- COAL-CARRIER
- MUSICIANS (2)
Entry written by Kathleen Jeffs. Last updated on 24 February 2011.
