See also:

• LUCAS, CHARLES (1713–1771)
• LUCAS, JOHN SEYMOUR (1849– )
• LUCAS, SIR CHARLES (d. 1648)

LUCAS See also:

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

FERNANDEZ  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• SALAMANCA
• SALAMANCA (anc. Salmantica or Elmantica)

Salamanca about the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Nothing is known of his See also:

• LIFE

life, and he is represented by a single See also:

• VOLUME

volume of plays, Farsas y eglogas al modo y estilo pastoril (1514) . In his See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular pieces—a comedia and two farsas—he introduces few personages, employs the simplest possible See also:

• ACTION

action, and burlesques the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

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 See also:

• PLAY

play intended to be given on Maundy See also:

• THURSDAY

Thursday . It is written in the manner of See also:

• ENCINA, JUAN DEL (1469–c.1533)

Encina, with less spontaneity, but with a sombre force to which Encina scarcely attained . See also:

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

Fernandez' plays were reprinted by the Spanish See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy in 1867 .