| LC control no. | sh2010014661 |
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| Topical heading | Loas (Drama) |
| See also | Latin American drama Spanish drama |
| Found in | Work cat.: 2006383902: Entremeses, loas y coloquios de Potosí, 2005. The Oxford companion to Spanish literature, 1978 (Loa started out as a religious prologue that evolved into a movement that spread out to secular drama in the form of short plays; known for lavishing praise on a wide variety of subjects; originally monologues, they developed into miniature plays to interest early arrivals; [lists of several prominent Spaniard authors]) Enc. univ. ilus., 1929 (Loa was a dramatic prologue commonly used in classic Spanish drama that would take on the form of dramatic poetry) Cambridge history of Latin American literature, 1996: (The loa was a genre of the theatre that embraced both secular and religious themes in colonial Spanish America. While most loas preceded full-length plays by colonial, or more frequently, Peninsular playwrights, they rarely by the eighteenth century, served merely as an introduction to the larger piece. Rather, they were independent works of a panegyric nature: [lists authors from Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, and Mexico]) |
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