Entremés

The Entremés ( span. Entremés "insertions" to French. Entremets "intermediate course", even Entremés ) is a short, fluctuating incorrect and funny one-act play , the Spanish theater of the Siglo de Oro . The realistic stage action is often combined with pantomime , dance and singing.

Entremeses were inserted between the acts of a comedia or between foreplay and auto sacramental . Originally - as the origin of the word reveals - they have been used for entertainment between the individual courses of a banquet since the Middle Ages . The subjects from the Volkstheater were not related to the main dramas.

The direct origin can be found in the Pasos of Lope de Rueda. Most entremeses were created in the 16th and 17th centuries at the height of Comedia poetry. His masters are Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca , who wrote entremeses for their own dramas, Miguel de Cervantes ( Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos , 1615) and Francisco de Quevedo , who elevated it to an independent genre. Luis Quiñones de Benavente alone is said to have written around 900 entremeses. In the course of the 17th century, intermediate forms such as the "jácara entremesada" or the "entremés cantado" became more popular, and finally the genres Sainete and Baile triumphed over other short dramatic forms.

literature

• William Shaffer Jack: The early Entremés in Spain. The rise of a dramatic form . Philadelphia 1923
• Helmut Heidenreich: Characters and comedy in the Spanish "Entremeses" of the golden age . (Dissertation) Munich 1962
• Cory A. Reed: The novelist as playwright. Cervantes and the entremés nuevo . New York et al. a. 1993. ISBN 0-8204-1989-3