Download or read book Sixteenth-century Spanish Writers written by Gregory B. Kaplan and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Spanish writers of the sixteenth-century, a period of territorial expansion, political hegemony and cultural prosperity in the face of ideological repression. Discusses the Hapsburg dynasty, the impact of the Counter-Reformation and the Inquisition had on censorship and literary production, and the Spanish passion for the theater that increased during the 1600s, during the pinnacle of the Golden Age of drama.