La guerra de los Ochenta Años en el teatro y en la narrativa: Maastricht y Breda
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Rosa Delgado, Pilar de la
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2021
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 9, Nº. 1, 2021, pags. 519-541
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In the context of the war between the Spanish crown and the United Provinces, the conquest of the cities of Maastricht and Breda was very significant from a political point of view for Spain. The soldier Alonso Vázquez and the Jesuit Herman Hugo lived and narrated the events that occurred during the siege of the two cities in the plays Sucesos de Flandes y Francia del tiempo de Alejandro Farnesio, and in Obsidio Bredana, respectively. On the site of these two cities, and based on the aforementioned plays, the two main Spanish Baroque playwrights, Lope and Calderón, wrote the dramas El asalto de Mastrique por el príncipe de Parma and El sitio de Bredá