entremeses

The festival is rooted in a performance tradition that goes back to 1954, when the University of Guanajuato first produced the "entremeses", or farcical works, of "Don Quixote" creator Miguel de Cervantes.

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The festival is rooted in a performance tradition that goes back to 1954, when the University of Guanajuato first produced the "entremeses", or farcical works, of "Don Quixote" creator Miguel de Cervantes.

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The festival is rooted in a performance tradition that goes back to 1954, when the University of Guanajuato first produced the "entremeses", or farcical works, of "Don Quixote" creator Miguel de Cervantes.

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Vera Tasis stated in his "Fama póstuma de Calderón" that the poet had written a great number of entremeses and sainetes (interludes and short farces); as a matter of fact, not more than a score of such briefer pieces, interludes and the like, can now be found.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Besides the comedias he wrote hundreds of autos, loas (prologues, curtain-raisers), and entremeses (interludes).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

_entremeses_ are lacking in the lively humour which should characterize these dramatic interludes.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

_comedias, autos, entremeses_, etc. Calderón constructed his plots more carefully than Lope and was stronger in exalted lyric and religious passages; but he was more mannered, more tainted with Gongorism and less skilled in creating characters. page 263

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

_entremeses_ of Portugal famous and from which Vicente must have taken many an idea for the staging of his plays.

Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501