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FERNANDEZ, LUCAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 279 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERNANDEZ, See also:LUCAS , See also:Spanish dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Salamanca about the See also:middle of the 15th See also:century. Nothing is known of his See also:life, and he is represented by a single See also:volume of plays, Farsas y eglogas al modo y estilo pastoril (1514). In his See also:secular pieces—a comedia and two farsas—he introduces few personages, employs the simplest possible See also:action, and burlesques the See also:language of the uneducated class; the secular and devout elements are skilfully intermingled in his two Farsas del nascimiento de Nuestro Senor Jesucristo. But the best of his dramatic essays is the Auto de la PasiOn, a devout See also:play intended to be given on Maundy See also:Thursday. It is written in the manner of See also:Encina, with less spontaneity, but with a sombre force to which Encina scarcely attained. Fernandez' plays were reprinted by the Spanish See also:Academy in 1867.

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