The Spanish Second Republic Revisited
The Spanish Second Republic Revisited

Author: Manuel Álvarez Tardío

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-02-04

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1836242271

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The 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.

The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-century Spanish Theatre
The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-century Spanish Theatre

Author: Carey Kasten

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1611483816

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The 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.

Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World
Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World

Author: Diego Santos Sánchez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1315405083

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Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictatorial regimes across Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. These are divided into three different approaches to theatre itself - as cultural practice, as performance, and as textual artifact - addressing topics including obedience, resistance, authoritarian policies, theatre business, exile, violence, memory, trauma, nationalism, and postcolonialism. This book draws together a diverse range of methodological approaches to foreground the effects and constraints of dictatorship on theatrical expression and how theatre responds to these impositions.

Theatre Censorship in Spain, 19311985
Theatre Censorship in Spain, 19311985

Author: Catherine O'Leary

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2023-05-15

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1786839849

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This 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.