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TORRES NAHARRO

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TORRES NAHARRO , BARTOLOM$ DE (148o—1530), See also:

Spanish dramatist, was See also:born towards the end of the 15th See also:century at Torres, near See also:Badajoz. After some years of soldiering and of captivity in See also:Algiers, Torres Naharro took orders, settled in See also:Rome about 1511, and there devoted himself chiefly to See also:writing plays. Though he alludes to the future See also:pope, See also:Clement VII. as his See also:protector, he See also:left Rome to enter the See also:household of Fabrizio See also:Colonna at See also:Naples where his See also:works were printed under the See also:title of Propaladia (1517). He is conjectured to have returned to his native See also:place, and to have died there shortly after 1529. His Didlogo del nacimiento is written in unavowed, though obvious, See also:imitation of See also:Encina, but in his subsequent plays he shows a much larger conception of dramatic possibilities. He classifies his pieces as comedias a noticia and comedias d See also:fantasia; the former, of which the Soldatesca and Tinellaria are examples, See also:present in dramatic See also:form. incidents within his See also:personal experience; the latter, which include such plays as Serafina, Himenea, Calamita and Aquilana, present imaginary episodes with adroitness and persuasiveness. Torres Naharro is much less dexterous in See also:stage-See also:craft than many inferior successors, his See also:humour is See also:rude and boisterous and his diction is unequal; but to a varied knowledge of human nature he adds knowledge of dramatic effect, and his rapid See also:dialogue, his fearless See also:realism and vivacious See also:fancy prepared the way for the romantic See also:drama in See also:Spain.

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