LUCAS

See also:

• FERNANDEZ, ALVARO
• FERNANDEZ, DIEGO
• FERNANDEZ, JOHN (Joao, Joam)
• FERNANDEZ, JUAN (fl. c. 1570)
• LUCAS FERNANDEZ

FERNANDEZ  , Spanish dramatist, was born at Salamanca about the middle of the 15th century . Nothing is known of his life, and he is represented by a single volume of plays, Farsas y eglogas al modo y estilo pastoril (1514) . In his secular pieces—a comedia and two farsas—he introduces few personages, employs the simplest possible action, and burlesques the language of the uneducated class; the secular and devout elements are skilfully intermingled in his two Farsas del nascimiento de Nuestro Senor Jesucristo . But the best of his dramatic essays is the Auto de la PasiOn, a devout play intended to be given on Maundy Thursday . It is written in the manner of Encina, with less spontaneity, but with a sombre force to which Encina scarcely attained . Fernandez' plays were reprinted by the Spanish Academy in 1867 .