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Ocaña in Golden Age Theatre

Ocaña, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

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Ocaña in Golden Age Theatre

Curiosity · Ocaña, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

Image of Ocaña, not of the place itself.

The town of Ocaña inspired two great playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age. Lope de Vega chose it as the setting for Peribáñez y el comendador de Ocaña, one of his best-known dramas of honour, while Pedro Calderón de la Barca set his comedy Casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar there. Both works confirm Ocaña's symbolic weight in classical Spanish theatre, which made it a recurring dramatic setting during the Golden Age.

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