Hagiography and Censorship in Theater of the Golden Age

The purpose of this paper is to study from the point of view of the teatrical censorship 24 religious and hagiographic comedies, dated from 1600 to 1745. Most of these plays are almost unknown: La loca del cielo, El hijo del Serafin, La aurora del sol divino, El negro del Serafin, Lo que toca al valor, El principe perseguido, Cegar para ver mejor, San Cayetano, San Blas, El pleito del Demonio con la Virgen, El bruto de Babilonia, La adultera penitente, Sera lo que Dios quisiere, La hija del Serafin, El Jose de las mujeres, Santa Catalina, El mas divino remedio, El iris de las tormentas, Santa Taez, El sol de Occidente, Angel, milagro y mujer, La conversion de la Magdalena, La gran Rosa de Viterbo y El bello iris setabitano. The information provided (concerning the intervention of the Inquisition, the relationships between the censors, the terms and procedures of their work) is also new and unknown.