Panorama des iberischen Theaters des Mittelalters: Katalonien-Aragon und Kastilien

Abstract

The article, from the field of medieval drama, tries to clear up both misunderstandings and biased approaches from state cultures against national minority cultures such as the Catalan. In fact, if the studies in the field of medieval Iberian theatre are very scarce and little known abroad, it is because the dramatic activity in Castilian lands at that time is very limited, as the latest research shows. When it comes to making an overview of the scenic practice in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, it is clear that only the Catalan-Aragonese Crown has a spectacular production of comparable size to that of other nations of the Mediterranean basin, and which marked, at all times, the pattern of theatrical creation and diffusion in the rest of the Hispanic kingdoms. Spectacular production and atmosphere which, after being assimilated by the new state of Castilian hegemony, allowed the theatrical outbreak of the Spanish Golden Age. In this article, the latest research on the subject is summarized and an inventory of all the texts and editions of Catalan dramas known from medieval times is presented.