Lorca's Experimental Theater : Breaking the Guardrails of Convention / Andrew A. Anderson and Anne J. Cruz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Andrew A., 1953- author.

Cruz, Anne J., author.

Series:

New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental drama, Spanish--History and criticism.

Experimental drama, Spanish.

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

García Lorca, Federico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Critical and historical discussions of the life and work of Federico García Lorca, Spain's foremost poet and playwright of the twentieth century, often obscure the author's more avant-garde dramatic works. In Lorca's Experimental Theater, Andrew A. Anderson focuses on four of Lorca's most challenging plays- Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, El público, Así que pasen cinco años, and El sueño de la vida (previously known as Comedia sin título )-and on the surrounding context in which they came to be written and in only one case performed during his lifetime. While none of Lorca's plays can be considered conventional, these four works stand out in his corpus for challenging theatrical conventions most forcefully, both thematically and technically.With discussions of stagecraft, artistic modernism, and the historical avant-garde, Lorca's Experimental Theater provides detailed interpretive readings of the four plays, surveys their textual and performative history, and examines the most important contemporary influences on Lorca's creation of these expressive, innovative works.

Contents:

Staging the unstageable : efforts to perform the experimental plays, 1929-1936

Undecidability in Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín

García Lorca and the New York Theater, 1929-1930

Three expressionist dramas : El público, Así que pasen cinco años, and El sueño de la vida

Theme and symbol in El público

Juliet and the shifting sands of El público

Destiny and denial in Así que pasen cinco años

Así que pasen cinco años, act 3, scene 1 : a reading

Social concern, metatheater, and the audience's experience in El sueño de la vida.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807183250

0807183253

9780807183243

0807183245

OCLC:

1463769178