Sainete

The ( rare: the ) Sainete (Spanish sainete " tidbits ") is a fluctuating way - cheerful, short one-act play of the Spanish theatrical tradition with instrumental guided vocals and dancing. It is characterized by witty pun. Towards the end of the 17th century it replaced the Entremés from as intermediate and injury; in the 18th century developed Ramón de la Cruz on the frame piece to an independent folk play. The stage action of Sainetes is a burlesque or satirical snapshot of the life of the people of Madrid, without a real framework, a conversation piece with folk, realistic characters. They have therefore become one of the most dramatic genres of the Spanish Theatre.

In addition to de la Cruz, El Manolo (1784 ) or La Petra y la Juana (1791 ) and Luis Quiñones de Benavente, there were countless anonymous writers and composers. As popular small form, the Sainete maintained even over the period of the Enlightenment and its classical dramas forms and maintained his identity to become a major genre in the late 19th century within the Género chico.

The main authors of the second flower were the brothers Joaquín Álvarez Quintero and Serafín and Carlos Arniches. Your Sainetes gained a great importance as a folk genre of social criticism until they were supplanted in the 1920s by the operetta and the musical theater. A special role was the Catalan Sainetes to the 19th century, who discovered the species as a form of intense social and political satire of the popular theater, and so developing elevated the Catalan to the rank of theatrical language. This is especially Frederic Soler Hubert mentioned.