Rueda, Lope de

Lope de Rueda ( Spanish: Lope de Rueda ; between 1505 and 1510 , Seville - about 1565 , Cordoba ) - Spanish playwright and actor.

Lope de Rueda
Lope de rueda
Lope de Rueda
Date of Birth	about 1510
Place of Birth	Seville
Date of death	1565 ( 1565 )
A place of death	Cordoba
Citizenship	Spain
Occupation	playwright, actor
Direction	Rebirth
Genre	eclogy , comedy , sideshow
Language of Works

He was a goldsmith in Seville, about 1544 he became an actor and director of a wandering troupe, playing his plays in Seville, Cordoba, Valencia, Segovia, and, according to some reports, at the court of Philip II.

He wrote 4 comedies, two pastoral Coloquios, ten Pasos or dialogues in prose and two dialogs in verse. In his comedies, Rueda followed Italian patterns; in part they represent a free translation from Italian. Coloquios Pastorales differ from comedies in a less thorough construction of intrigue and a solemn pedantic tone; only comic places matter in them. Pasos - small lively scenes without intrigue and denouement, intended to amuse the idle audience for several minutes; the plots are taken from everyday life and processed witty. The first publisher of the works of Rueda, his friend and follower Juan de Timoneda , gave them the name entremeses; it is possible, however, that these are excerpts from the more extensive dramatic works of Rueda that have not reached us.

The main goal of the dramatic works of Rueda was to amuse the public from the lower classes. Their success depended mainly on the role of jesters or simpletons (Simples), who almost never left the stage in Rueda’s plays. Each play begins with a short prologue that includes a story , and ends with a joke or an apology to the public. Light, characteristic, purely Castilian turns of speech, good-natured gaiety, a subtle flair of comic, reproduction of ordinary morals and surroundings - these are the outstanding features of the dramatic works of Rueda, whom Cervantes and Lope de Vega recognized as the true founder of the Spanish folk theater .

Rueda is credited with dividing the plays into acts. The collection of his works was first published in 1567 and, until 1588 , has survived several editions; a new edition appeared in Madrid in 1896 (vols. 23 and 24, “Coleccion de libros españoles raros ó curiosos”). The selected works of Rueda are y Böhl de Faber, Teatro antiquo español (Hamburg, 1832 ), Ochoas, Tesoro de teatro español (P., 1840 ) and in the 2nd volume of Biblioteca de autores españoles by Ribadenire. Rueda translated some of his plays into German by Rapp (Spanisches Theater, vol. I, Guildburghausen, 1868 ), and into French by Germond de Lavigne (Paris, 18 83).