ABSTRACT
The theater at least can offer one more great name and a few others of some justified repute. It was indeed the drama which cast the last gleams of brilliance over this dying society. In Spanish themes there is naturally greater regard for truth. But share of history is reduced to very little. What we have is anecdotes, true or legendary, which concern certain real names. In semi-historic style Calderon's master-work is beyond question El alcalde de Zalamea. The subject is dramatic, plot is simply and strongly built. Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, a Toledan and Knight of Santiago, wrote about seventy comedias and fifteen autos, besides works of doubtful authenticity and collaborations. To posterity he is known as the author of Del rey abajo ninguno (None Save the King), otherwise El labrador mas honrado, Garcia del Castanar. Alvaro Cubillo de AragOn was one of the most fertile dramatists of that period. Of his hundred plays about two dozen have survived shipwreck.
