TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE * Italics are denoted by underscores as in _italics_, and small caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS. * Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected. * Original spelling was kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found. * The following words have been changed: p. 57: Sesa → Sessa pp. 283, 424: Benevente → Benavente pp. 359, 360: Copacobana → Copacabana * Footnotes have been renumbered into a single series and placed at the end of the paragraph that includes each anchor. HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE. VOL. II. HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE. BY GEORGE TICKNOR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME II. NEW YORK: HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET. M DCCC XLIX. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by GEORGE TICKNOR, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. SECOND PERIOD. (CONTINUED.) CHAPTER VII. THEATRE IN THE TIME OF CHARLES THE FIFTH, AND DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE REIGN OF PHILIP THE SECOND. Drama opposed by the Church 3 Inquisition interferes 4 Religious Dramas continued 4 Secular Plays, Castillejo, Oliva 5 Juan de Paris 6 Jaume de Huete 8 Agostin Ortiz 9 Popular Drama attempted 9 Lope de Rueda 9 His Four Comedias 11 His Two Pastoral Colloquies 13 His Ten Pasos 16 His Two Dialogues in Verse 17 His insufficient Apparatus 18 He begins the Popular Drama 19 Juan de Timoneda 20 His Cornelia 21 His Menennos 21 His Blind Beggars 22 CHAPTER VIII. THEATRE, CONTINUED.