Diego Sánchez de Badajoz
(1479?-ca. 1550?)
Spanish theologian, poet, and dramatist
Stage Works
The only extant plays of Diego Sanchez de Badajoz are the following twenty-eight farsas, first published posthumously in Recopilación en metro (Seville, 1554) and in more recent times under the same title in Buenos Aires, 1968, ed. by F. Kurlat.
- Farsa teologal (Theological Play).
- Farsa de la Natividad (Nativity Play).
- Farsa de Santa Bárbara (Play of St. Barbara).
- Farsa de Salomón (Play of Solomon).
- Farsa moral (Morality Play).
- Farsa del colmenero (Play of the Beekeeper).
- Farsa de Tamar (Play of Tamar).
- Farsa militar (Military Play).
- Farsa racional (The Marriage of Reason).
- Farsa del matrimonio (Play of Matrimony).
- Farsa del Santfsimo Sacramento (Play of the Most Holy Sacrament).
- Farsa de los doctores (Play of the Learned Men).
- Farsa de la fortuna á hado (Play of Fortune or Fate).
- Farsa de Isaac (Play of Isaac).
- Farsa de molinero (Play of the Miller).
- Farsa del Moysén (Play of Moses).
- Farsa de Santa Susaña (Play of St. Susanna).
- Farsa del rey David (Play of King David).
- Farsa de Abrahán (Play of Abraham).
- Farsa de la Iglesia (Play of the Church).
- Farsa del herrero (Play of the Blacksmith).
- Farsa de la Salutacián (Play of the Angel's Greeting to Mary).
- Farsa de San Pedro (Play of St. Peter).
- Farsa de la hechicera (Play of the Witch).
- Farsa de la ventura (Play of Fortune).
- Farsa de la muerte (Play of Death).
- Farsa del juego de cañas (The Reed-Spear Tournament).
- Danza de los pecados (Dance of the Sins).
Criticism:
- J. López Prudencio, Diego Sánchez de Badajoz: estudio crítico, biográfico bibliográfico, Madrid, 1915;
- B. W. Wardropper, Introducción al teatro religioso del Siglo de Oro, Salamanca, 1953.