biography
pronunciation:
[rooayda]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1505–65)
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| biography:
| Actor and comedy writer, born in Seville, SW Spain. In 1551 the Valladolid town council constructed an open-air theatre for his comedies. He performed in the presence of Felipe II (1554) and in the Corpus Christi plays in Sevilla (1559). Cervantes, A de Rojas, and J Rufo speak highly of his skill as an actor and director of plays. Rueda successfully assimilated the original techniques of the commedia dell'arte. Juan de Timoneda (Valencia, 1567) collected Rueda's principal prose pieces in two groups: comedies (Eufemia, Armelinda, Medora, Los engañados) and sketches (La carátula (1545); El convidado (1546); La tierra de Jauja (1547), and Las aceitunas (1548)), based on the presentation of situations and types of humour. Rueda created a minor dramatic genre, costumbrista and popular, preceding the entremeses of Cervantes and Quiñones and the sainetes of Ramón de la Cruz. |
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