The Spanish Theatre During the Second Republic, 1931-1936
Author: Michael Dennis McGaha
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 882
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Author: Michael Dennis McGaha
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 882
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 441
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael D. McGaha
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780729300803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carey Kasten
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1611483816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater argues that twentieth-century artists used the Golden Age Eucharist plays called autos sacramentales to reassess the way politics and the arts interact in the Spanish nation's past and present, and to posit new ideas for future relations between the state and the national culture industry. The book traces the phenomenon of the twentieth-century auto to show how theater practitioners revisited this national genre to manifest different, oftentimes opposing, ideological and aesthetic agendas. It follows the auto from the avant-garde stagings and rewritings of the form in the early twentieth century, to the Francoist productions by the Teatro Nacional de la Falange, to postmodern parodies of the form in the era following Franco's death to demonstrate how twentieth-century Spanish dramatists use the auto in their reassessment of the nation's political and artistic past, and as a way of envisioning its future.
Author: Tanya Farnung-Morrison
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Spain during the 1930s, the democratically elected Second Republic government imposed progressive reforms designed to modernize the nation. However, conservative factions opposed these changes in favor of a return to the traditions and Catholic devotion that they viewed as the foundation of the country. As political conflict weakened Spain, regional identification within the country increased. In this dissertation, I identify playwrights who aimed to shape the collective identity of their southern region known as Andalusia. In order to do this, they chose an icon associated with the region and undermined its typical characteristics and the values that it represented. In this way, the authors communicated a political message through a form of entertainment. Their use of theater reached wide audiences and relied on a collective experience to urge spectators to consider the stance of the work. I analyze Manuel and Antonio Machado's revision of Carmen in La duquesa de Benameji, Pedro Munoz Seca's conservative portrayal of Don Juan in La plasmatoria and Federico Garcia Lorca's liberal depiction of the absence of the Virgin Mary in Yerma. Each of these plays illustrates the weakening of an icon and its cultural value through adaptation. Finally, I explore the contemporary iconization of Lorca himself in Miguel Hermoso's film La luz prodigiosa. This contrast shows the modern-day utility of an icon to remember the horrors of the Spanish Civil War that ended the Second Republic.
Author: John London
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780901286833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book constitutes the first attempt to provide an overview of the reception of foreign drama in Spain during the Franco dictatorship. John London analyses performance, stage design, translation, censorship, and critical reviews in relation to the works of many authors, including Noel Coward, Arthur Miller, Eugene Ionesco, and Samuel Beckett. He compares the original reception of these dramatists with the treatment they were given in Spain. However, his study is also a reassessment of the Spanish drama of the period. Dr London argues that only by tracing the reception of non-Spanish drama can we understand the praise lavished on playwrights such as Antonio Buero Vallejo and Alfonso Sastre, alongside the simultaneous rejection of Spanish avant-garde styles. A concluding reinterpretation of the early plays of Fernando Arrabal indicates the richness of an alternative route largely ignored in histories of Spanish theatre.
Author: Manuel Álvarez Tardío
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1836241291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in modern European history. This book analyses the main obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Spain and debates the principal stereotypes of the traditional historiography of both left and right.
Author: Maria M Delgado
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1134402104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, 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.
Author: Oliver Baldwin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1855663562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, this book provides the most detailed reconstruction ever of one of the most important events in Spanish theatrical history.Winner of the 2019-20 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize On 18 June 1933, one of the most important events in Spanish theatrical history took place before an audience of 3,000 spectators in the ruins of the Roman Theatre in Mérida. Translated into Spanish by philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, staged by the renowned Xirgu-Borràs Company and funded by the government, the performance of Seneca''s Medea was a triumph of republican culture and widely hailed for its new dramatic and scenic languages. This book provides the most detailed reconstruction of this pivotal production to date, setting it in context and analysing its origin and legacy. Early twentieth-century intellectuals considered Seneca, ''the philosopher from Córdoba'', the epitome of Spanishness and the first in an illustrious line of playwrights stretching from Spain''s Roman Antiquity to its Silver Age. His play was seen as the ideal vehicle to showcase the Second Spanish Republic''s cultural, social and educational agenda but provoked a furious backlash from opponents to the government''s progressive programme. The book shows how the performance became a cultural ritual which stood at the centre of critical discussions on national identity, politics, secularism, women''s rights and new European aesthetics of theatre-making. Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, it will be of interest to theatre historians, scholars of Classical Reception and historians of the Second Spanish Republic.aywrights stretching from Spain''s Roman Antiquity to its Silver Age. His play was seen as the ideal vehicle to showcase the Second Spanish Republic''s cultural, social and educational agenda but provoked a furious backlash from opponents to the government''s progressive programme. The book shows how the performance became a cultural ritual which stood at the centre of critical discussions on national identity, politics, secularism, women''s rights and new European aesthetics of theatre-making. Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, it will be of interest to theatre historians, scholars of Classical Reception and historians of the Second Spanish Republic.aywrights stretching from Spain''s Roman Antiquity to its Silver Age. His play was seen as the ideal vehicle to showcase the Second Spanish Republic''s cultural, social and educational agenda but provoked a furious backlash from opponents to the government''s progressive programme. The book shows how the performance became a cultural ritual which stood at the centre of critical discussions on national identity, politics, secularism, women''s rights and new European aesthetics of theatre-making. Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, it will be of interest to theatre historians, scholars of Classical Reception and historians of the Second Spanish Republic.aywrights stretching from Spain''s Roman Antiquity to its Silver Age. His play was seen as the ideal vehicle to showcase the Second Spanish Republic''s cultural, social and educational agenda but provoked a furious backlash from opponents to the government''s progressive programme. The book shows how the performance became a cultural ritual which stood at the centre of critical discussions on national identity, politics, secularism, women''s rights and new European aesthetics of theatre-making. Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, it will be of interest to theatre historians, scholars of Classical Reception and historians of the Second Spanish Republic.ce became a cultural ritual which stood at the centre of critical discussions on national identity, politics, secularism, women''s rights and new European aesthetics of theatre-making. Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, it will be of interest to theatre historians, scholars of Classical Reception and historians of the Second Spanish Republic.
Author: Catherine O'Leary
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2023-05-15
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 1786839849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre censorship practised during the Second Republic (1931–6), the civil war (1936–9), the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) and the transition to democracy (1975–85). Changes in criteria, administrative structures and personnel from these periods are traced in relation to wider political, social and cultural developments, and the responses of playwrights, directors and companies are explored. With a focus on censorship, new light is cast on particular theatremakers and their work, the conditions in which all kinds of theatre were produced, the construction of genres and canons, as well as on broader cultural history and changing ideological climate – all of which are linked to reflections on the nature of censorship and the relationship between culture and the state.