Spanish theatre 1920-1995 : strategies in protest and imagination / [issue editor: Maria M. Delgado].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delgado, Maria M.

Series:

Contemporary theatre review ; v. 7, pt. 2.

Contemporary theatre review ; v. 7, pt. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Spain--History--20th century.

Theater.

Spanish drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920's and 30's, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Editorial; 'The Impossible Theatre': The Spanish Stage at the Time of the Avant-Garde; Attempts; Towards an Art Theatre; Towards a National Theatre; Experimental Theatre and University Theatre; Models; The Anti-Realist Polemic and The Reassertion of a Plastic Theatre; The Cinematic Model; Puppet Epics; The Poetic and The Popular; The Theatre as Poetry Incarnate; Conclusion; Valle-Inclán, Spanish Precursor of the Absurdist Mode; Drama, Religion and Republicanism: Theatrical Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War; Beyond Lorca; References

Notes on Contributors Contemporary Theatre Review; Index

Notes:

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-135-29933-1

90-5702-116-1

1-135-29934-X

1-280-14703-2

9786610147038

0-203-98979-1

9780203989791

OCLC:

259513902