The cultural politics of twentieth-century Spanish theatre
Subtitle: representing the auto sacramental
By: Carey Kasten
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611483819; 9781611483826
Subjects: Autos sacramentales; Theater and society; Theater; Spanish drama; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: autonomizing the Calderonian auto sacramental; title: Tradition revised: the auto sacramental in the early twentieth century. The avant-garde rediscovery of the auto; title: Francoism and the auto as political mouthpiece restoring the auto: from the battlefield to a national theater; title: Tradition overthrown: the auto sacramental in the post-Franco era. Subverting tradition: Francisco Nieva and his sacred irreverence; title: Emerging from darkness: national and theatrical revision in Jesús Campos García's A ciegas; title: The auto industry: anti-commercialism and the plays of Ernesto Caballero; title: Conclusion.