The Presence of Italian, Spanish and French Theatre in the Kingdom of Hungary

Abstract

In this study, we examine how the influence of the neo-Roman world made its way in the field of music and theatre life in Central Europe over the centuries. The three chosen moments (sixteenth-century Renaissance music and theatre for the Italian influence, seventeenthcentury school dramas for the Spanish influence, and eighteenthcentury court theatre for the French influence) are arbitrary ones, but as a whole they may represent the ways of evolution of the history of theatre in the Kingdom of Hungary.