Spanish Golden Age

Question 1

Golden age

Answer 1

-Begins with the birth of Cervantes 1547
-Ends with the death of Pedro Calderon 1680
-death and pessimism

Question 2

Cervantes

Answer 2

-Prisoner of pirates
-first novel “La Galatea”
-1605 published Don Quixote

Question 3

The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote

Answer 3

-Begins as parody of chivalry
-Don Quixote = justice

Question 4

Characteristics of Don Quixote

Answer 4

-first modern novel
-mixes narrators
-novel within the novel
-Two worlds reality of sancho panza and fantasy

Question 5

Lope de Vega

Answer 5

-creator of the new comedy
-access to the theater for the classes
-breaking the units of the Greeks (only one place; action just have one topic; time all happen in a single day)
-creation of the funny character

Question 6

Plays of lope the Vega

Answer 6

El maestro del danzar, la dama boba, la viuda valenciana

Question 7

Features of the theater of lope de Vega

Answer 7

-national topic
-Spanish pride
-religion and honor
-language natural and expressive

Question 8

Culteranismo

Answer 8

“Gongorism” for Luis de Góngora y argote
-references of mythology, metaphors and comparisons
-for educated people

Question 9

Conceptismo

Answer 9

-prioriza the idea that was behind
-puns (juego de palabras)
-clever use of words
-Used comedy