Getting more specific with the
types of tension during Spanish Golden Age play openings, how many types of
tension can you come up with?
First, a play writer of this age, Lope De Vega, and John T. Cull’s literature. Cull surmises that in the majority of plays by
Lope, unlike with other experimental Spanish Golden Age plays, auditory
effects, in the majority of plays by Lope, is not what gets the action
rolling. Instead, it is tension amongst
individuals. Cull studied the one
hundred and ninety eight plays by Lope and interestingly, in only eighteen of
these, there appears a single individual that emerges onstage to open the play. Therefore Cull speculates that a single
character is the least dramatic, and the most difficult with which to create dramatic
tension, in regards to theatrical dynamics.
Now specific to Lope’s types of
tension Cull notes, “The forms that play
beginnings of displacement take are many.
They include warfare, the hunt, accidents and violence, mistaken or
assumed identities, characters who are literally displaced from their homes due
to travel, those who challenge or ridicule the power of love, those who would
alter the prevailing social order or hierarchy in any fashion, crises of
conscience or family conflicts.” This
covers a lot of ground, no?
How many types of tension did you come up with?
Sheila Cull
Twin Cull ©
Twin Cull ©
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