Renaissance Theater

The Renaissance theatre, as other genres of the period, takes as a principal characteristic the imitation of the classic Greco-Roman authors, principally to Horace in his " Preceptiva literaria ".  Bartolomé Torres Naharro is inspired by it for writting his Propaladia or Rules of dramatic art. This humanistic trend of the theatre culminates in a few manners purely Renaissance in works as " Agamemnon's revenge " of Fernán Pérez de la Oliva. Other theatrical Renaissance authors are Lope de Rueda with " Pasos and popular Colloquia ", Gil Vicente,  that  wrote "Don Duardos's Tragicomedy", and Juan del Encina, that has his position well gained in the theatre Spanish clasical theatre with his "entremeses", "pasos" and his "juegos de escarnio" . But the most representative work of the time is undoubtedly "The Tragicomedy of Calixto and Melibea", vulgarly so called "La Celestina", of Fernando de Rojas, theatrical work in his first edition of 16 acts and in the second one happened to have 21, for what one considers it to be a novel developed in classic theatre. It develops the tragic love of his protagonists and the procuress's paper of the old woman Celestina, who also dies tragically. Of there its name of Tragicomedy ... ".