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Rennert, The Spanish Stage, 571-573, y Rodríguez Marín, Bol. Acad. Esp., 1, 61, 171, 172, 174, 322, 326 y 327.

Then with a sweeping and silent bow to the fiancée the actor approached the front of the stage to pronounce this brief address to the public: Aquí Puso fin á esta comedia Quien, si perdiere este pleito, Apela á Mil y Quinientas. MIL Y QUINIENTAS ha escrito: Bien es que perdón merezca.

XV in Assemanni Biblioth. Or., tomo III, P. I, pág. 24. Collier, History of english dramatic poetry and Annals of the stage, vol. I. Voltaire, Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations. August., Serm. 311 in Natal. div. Cypriani. Binterim, Denkwürdigkeiten der katholischen Kirche, P. IV, tomo I, pág. 555. Quint., De oratoribus, C., 9, 11. Plim., Epist.

In the villages and towns they were simply the plaza or other open space in which the rude stage and paraphernalia were temporarily set up. Quoting from Cervantes, Ticknor says of the theater of Lope de Rueda: "The theater was composed of four benches, arranged in a square, with five or six boards laid across them, that were thus raised about four palms from the ground.

The leading character is introduced in the first scene, which is followed by the long exposition of attendant circumstances that could be as well narrated as produced upon the stage. Thus delay and harrowing detail are avoided.