Interludes (Drama)

found: Cuddon, J.A. A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, 1998:interlude (interlude. A short entertainment put on between the courses of a feast or the acts of a play. During the Middle Ages and up to the 16th c. the term was used to describe a variety of dramatic entertainments. Italian Renaissance drama had intermezzi. In France and Spain similar diversions were called entremets and entremeses.) intermezzi (intermezzi. Light, comic interpolations put on between the acts of serious plays in Italy during the 15th and 16th c. They were usually devoted to mythological subjects. They were similar to the momeries and entremets in France, and the entremeses in Spain. See also entr'acte; interlude) entremés (entremés. A Spanish term deriving from French entremets. A diversion (dramatic or otherwise) between the courses of a banquet. In Catalonia they were called entrameses and the term was later applied to dramatic interludes during the Corpus Christi procession. In Castilian, during the 16th and 17th c., they were brief comic interludes performed between the acts of a play. In the 18th c., similar entertainments were named sainete; and in the 19th c., the género chico was comparable. See also entr'acte; interlude; intermezzi)

found: The Oxford companion to the theatre, 1983:interlude (interlude, in early English drama the name for a short dramatic sketch. For these Renaissance Italy adopted the term intermedio or intermezzo, the former term giving rise to the French entremets or intermède, meaning a short comedy or farce.)

Brief plays performed between the courses of a banquet or the acts of a longer play.

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