History of the Neapolitan theater
The theater in Naples sees its dawns lose in the night of the times. It is not certainly pretended to begin our history beginning from the epoch of the Cesaris, we want to narrate vagabond of it of the so many companies that in the medioevo they crowded the plazas in times of fairs and markets. We will begin our history beginning from the year 1500. The first certain news that comes us from the history, makes to go up again to the times of the Aragonese court the birth of the first actors and Neapolitan playwrights. In fact, toward the end of four hundred, to the Aragonese court, resplendent of the glory of the Cariteo, a poet appears named Pietro Anthony Caracciolo, author of a farce from the name "You farce de I quote him/it", of which to us small fragments have come only. But already a few years before, the 4 March of 1492, in a room of Castel Capuano, another Neapolitan poet, Jacopo Sannazaro, celebrated the victories of the Spaniards and the taking of the city of Broom to the presence of Alfonso Di Aragon duke of Calabria, ridiculing the figure of the prophet Mohammed and glorifying the deeds of the Aragonese commander; this work from the title "Arcadia" it traced what was the dramaturgical style of the '500 and that is to act from gilded mirror for the ruling ones, where the plots and the wisecracks other they were not that I/you/he/she orchestrate of adoration. This was not able certain andar well to the riders, covetous of sincere fun. The turn was to work of P.A. Caracciolo that with the work "Imagico" (the magician) it repudiated the lacy and in bloom language of the sovereigns and it drew from the people both the plot and the dialectics. He presented in scene"... togato, with face et beard antiqua de summa auctoritą accompanied by four soys discepuli de white suits." We can establish then that the first true actors of the Neapolitan theater were Jacopo Sannazaro and P.A. Caracciolo, authors and directors of if same, that had, besides, also the worth to make to go out the theater of the boundaries of the courts and the royal buildings, bringing him/it in the middle of the people that in the future will do a reason for life of it.