“La relación entre Historia y Poesía en el último cuarto del siglo XVI (con especial atención al teatro cervantino de la ‘primera época’)”

The late XVIth century theatre proves to be specially interested in dramatic use of historical episodes, both of ancient and national history. Looking at the theatral production of the period from this angle, artificial differences between tragedians (interested in History) and younger dramatists that launch the Comedia Nueva formula will fade out. Cervantes’s “first period” dramatic production is a good example of the continuous experimentation that is typical of the late XVIth century theatre: it presents a wide range of historical dramatizations, from ancient history to the very latest one, and of dramatic formulas, from senequian tragedy to historical comedy with an important love plot.