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Our knowledge of the two Madrid corrales de comedias is mainly derived from the municipal repair documents preserved in the Archivo Municipal and now published complete by N. D. Shergold.1 Although their interpretation is by no means straightforward, these documents do enable us to piece together a remarkably detailed picture of the theatres during the last century of their existence. However, this municipal documentation dates back only to the late 1630s, for the obvious reason that the Madrid theatres did not come fully under municipal control until 1638. Before this, during the first half-century or so after their foundation, repairs were the responsibility of the Hospitals, and the associated documentation, apart from a few isolated items, has not survived. One of the main problems we face in attempting to reconstruct the Madrid corrales is the lack of concrete evidence from this early period, a deficiency which is all the more unfortunate when one considers that the period in question includes, for e...

luneta. Se llama en los Corrales de Comedias la estancia cerrada que hai delante del tablado, donde se sientan gentes de distincion, que tambien se llaman Taburetes. Dixose Luneta por estar hecha en forma circular. Lat. Lunata sedes in spectaculis. (Diccionario de Autoridades)

The printing of the plays of Encina, Fernandez, Vicente and Torres Naharro in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries permitted their widespread diffusion in their own day, and for later g...

Premraj Radhe Krishna Halkhoree, Professor of Spanish in the University of Ottawa, died in hospital in Ottawa on 14 April 1978. Born in Trinidad on 21 April 1941, he attended Queen's Royal College ...