An in-depth study of the figures of pre-and post-Baroque Spanish drama, including either Gil Vicente, Juan de Encina, Torres Naharro, Lope de Rueda, Miguel de Cervantes y Juan de la Cueva, or Lope, Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón, Mira de Amescua, Vélez de Guevara, Calderón de la Barca, Ana Caro and María Zayas. Special emphasis on the social and historical reality which framed Spanish drama of the seventeenth century. May be repeated when the topics vary.