Entremés

The Entremés (Spanish entremés " insertions " to French entremets " Entrée ", also Entremes ) is a short, fluctuating incorrect or satirical one-act play, which comes from the Spanish Baroque theater. Often the realistic stage action associated with pantomime, dance and singing.

Entremeses were inserted between the acts of a sacramental Comedia or between foreplay and car. They were originally used - as the etymology suggests - since the Middle Ages of entertainment between courses of a banquet. From the 13th century it was played as a farcical slot between tournaments and processions. The materials from the popular theater had no connection with the main dramas.

Most Entremeses in the 16th and 17th centuries, at the height of the Comedia seal. When his master shall Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca, the Entremeses to their own dramas written, Miguel de Cervantes ( Ocho come dias y ocho entremeses nuevos, 1615 ) and Francisco de Quevedo, who raised it to a separate genus. Alone Luis Quiñones de Benavente is said to have written about 900 Entremeses. At the end of the 17th century, the Entremés was replaced by Sainete. He lived in Género chico on.

See also Paso.