Media in Valladolid, 18th Century. Theater and press

Abstract

Communication has transformed mankind into human beings. Communication and interaction transformed human kind into social groups. Without communication, the interchange of information with the different technologies accordingly, there is no development. Hence knowledge of the media is necessary to understand society.

The great changes that took place in the 18th century, intellectual, economic and technical provoked the outburst of Liberal revolution, often violent and radical. Valladolid, an inland town, nevertheless important crossroads, was the place for important institutions to settle: The University, the Chancery, the powerful monastic orders. It was a levitic society, a clerical one. In order to understand how it was transformed into a Liberal one the analysis of two main media of sociability could be of interest: Drama and Press.

The Teatro de la Comedia (17th century) and the new, very modern at the time, Diario Pinciano (1787–1788) of great importance as it was the first of a new written periodical media inland. Only Madrid, the capital of the kingdom and a few Mediterranean cities had this privilege.