Torres Naharro, Bartolomé de

Torres Naharro, Bartolomé de

▪ Spanish dramatist
born 1484?, La Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Spain
died 1525?, Sevilla?

      playwright and theorist, the most important Spanish dramatist before Lope de Vega (Vega, Lope de), and the first playwright to create realistic Spanish characters.

      Little is known of Torres Naharro's life; apparently he was a soldier and was held captive for a time in Algiers. He was ransomed, and he went to Rome in 1513 where he took holy orders. After ordination he became a favourite of Pope Leo X and other prominent churchmen and businessmen in Rome and Naples.

      Torres Naharro published his collected works in 1517. Entitled the Propalladia (“The First Things of Pallas”), they were prefaced with a discourse on dramatic art that distinguished between tragedy and comedy, a distinction that was lost in later Spanish drama. He classified his own plays as comedias “a noticia,” treating “things noted and seen in true reality,” and “a fantasia,” concerning those “fantastic or feigned, which though not true have the colour of truth”—an implicit granting of equal validity to observation and imagination that represents a major advance in literary theory. His Comedia tinellaria (“Comedy of the Kitchen”) is a brilliant satire on the corruption and intrigue in the palace of a Roman cardinal; the Comedia Himenea, based on the novel La Celestina, has been said to constitute the greatest single step toward the creation of the Golden Age comedia. Torres Naharro's work, nevertheless, differs radically in spirit from that of his successors in the Golden Age.

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