Shakespeare in the Spanish theatre
Subtitle: 1772 to the present
By: Keith Gregor
Series: Continuum Shakespeare studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780826499349
Subjects: Appreciation; Stage history; Theater; History
Description: "Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Ducis's Hamlet in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century. Despite a largely indirect entrance into the culture, Shakespeare has gone on to become the best-known and most widely performed of all foreign playwrights. What is more, by the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century there have been more productions of Shakespeare than of all of Spain's major Golden Age dramatists put together. This book explores and explains this spectacular rise to prominence and offers a timely overview of Shakespeare's place in Spain's complex and vibrant culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The taste for tragedy; title: False beginnings; title: The birth of chraracter; title: Disaster and regeneration; title: The Franco years; title: The transition and beyond; title: Shakespeare on the "periphery"; title: New Horizons.