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In a play written in this language, characters emerge from globes while dressed in the costumes their stage manager, World, provided them with. In another short play written in this language, Zeal complains that a group of characters disrespect his wife Religion because they exalt “The God of Seeds.” Short plays in this language performed during Corpus Christi are given a name meaning “sacramental acts,” and define (15[1])the religious type of (*) loas that preceded longer plays written in this language. In a play written in this language, a cross-dressing woman presents a sword so that a warden recognizes her as his child, and she later frees a Prince of Poland from a tower. For 10 points, name this language used to write Life is a Dream and other plays during its 17th-century Golden Age. ■END■

ANSWER: Spanish [or Español] (the unnamed play in the first line is Pedro Calderón's The Great Theater of the World. The play in the second line is Loa to Divine Narcissus and was written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.)
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