Loa (literary studies)

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Loa (from Spanish loar , to praise) is the name for a form of prologue in Spanish theater in the 16th and 17th centuries. The loa took the place of the older introito and usually contains the praise of a person (e.g. the dignitaries of a city) and the content of the respective piece. It is comparable to the Captatio benevolentiae in antiquity. Traveling stages usually had a repertoire of several loas, which they could adapt to the local conditions of their respective venue. Agustín de Rojas Villandrando mentions this fact in his work El viaje entretenido from 1603.

literature

  • Joseph Arthur Meredith: Introito and loa in the Spanish Drama of the 16th Century . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1928