Corral del Principe

One of Madrid's Important Corrales

1730 drawing (published 1881)

Modern reconstruction sketch by Carlos Dorremochea. From John J. Allen, The Reconstruction of a Spanish Golden Age Playhouse, 1983.

Pages by Mrs. D

"One of the most admirable things about history is, that almost as a rule, we get as much information out of what it does not say as we get out of what it does say. . . . History is a frog; half of it is submerged, but he knows it is there, and he knows the shape of it."

"The Secret History of Eddypus", Mark Twain