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Author Kasten, Carey

Title The cultural politics of twentieth-century Spanish theatre : representing the auto sacramental / Carey Kasten
Published Lanham : Bucknell University Press, c2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 220 p.)
Contents Introduction: autonomizing the Calderonian auto sacramental -- Tradition revised: the auto sacramental in the early twentieth century. The avant-garde rediscovery of the auto -- Francoism and the auto as political mouthpiece restoring the auto: from the battlefield to a national theater -- Tradition overthrown: the auto sacramental in the post-Franco era. Subverting tradition: Francisco Nieva and his sacred irreverence -- Emerging from darkness: national and theatrical revision in Jesús Campos García's A ciegas -- The auto industry: anti-commercialism and the plays of Ernesto Caballero -- Conclusion
Summary This book addresses seventeenth- and twentieth-century Spanish theater, providing close readings of plays and their performances as well as the cultural and political climates in which these plays were produced. This is the first book dedicated to the study of the twentieth-century auto, and the book's unique cross-temporal approach appeals to a broad range of scholars of Spanish studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index
Notes English
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Subject Theater and society -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Theater -- Political aspects -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Autos sacramentales -- History and criticism
Spanish drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Autos sacramentales
Spanish drama
Theater and society
Theater -- Political aspects
Spain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021680552
ISBN 9781611483826
1611483824
1280656867
9781280656866
9786613634160
6613634166