Heads up! In the Golden Age, women threw cucumbers at other audience members. This detail is just one of many fun facts a video about Spanish theater during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries covers. Other information the resource uncovers includes names of key playwrights and summaries of well-known plays during the time period.

Concepts

dramatic plays, spanish culture, the renaissance

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Additional Tags

visual and performing arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Compare theater during the Spanish Renaissance to theater during the same time in the Italian Renaissance

Classroom Considerations

• Video is part of a larger series that covers the history of theater from early times to the modern age
• Pause the video frequently to permit viewers to ask questions and clarify understanding

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Makes reference to TV shows of popular culture, such as The Bachelor
• Combines a discussion of history with content of popular plays

Cons

• Narrator talks really fast, making the information difficult to follow

Common Core

RH.9-10.7 RH.11-12.7