La expresión caballeresca en las fiestas reales barrocas españolas

Abstract

A basic characteristic in the poetic-musical plays of the seventeenth century was the authorities’ representation through an extraordinary and unreal world, representative of the epic and chivalric world. This singular expression was developed from the tournaments and masquerades of the sixteenth century to become an important part of the palace theater. This characteristic aesthetic had its origins in the foreign chivalric traditions, such as the Amadis cycle, since the Hispanic medieval tradition had no remoteness from reality, which is necessary to be the language of self-expression that need the poetic-musical drama.