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Author Alonso de Santos, José Luis, 1942- author.

Title La estanquera de vallecas : the granny and the heist / Jose Luis Alonso de Santos ; translated with an introduction by Stuart Green ; teaching resources designed by Lucy Meyer and Stuart Green
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource
Series Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics
Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- There's no-one quite like Grandma -- Vallecas: from village to neighbourhood and on stage -- Plot summary -- Alonso de Santos and the theatre of his time: playwriting and politics -- La estanquera de Vallecas: a blend of sainete and the picaresque -- Characters -- Premiere(s): critical and commercial reaction -- Notes on the translation -- Acknowledgements -- Translator's Note -- Bibliography -- La estanquera de Vallecas / The Granny and the Heist -- Teaching Resources -- Introduction -- Addressing any concerns
Teaching and learning objectives -- Skills activities -- Speaking -- Listening -- Reading -- Writing -- Research project -- Performance -- Lesson sequence -- Entrevista con Beatriz Bergamín / Interview with Beatriz Bergamín -- Transcriptions of videoclips -- Photographs from the 1985 stage production -- Sample student work -- Answers to questions
Summary Premiered in 1981, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness in its examination of an area of Madrid equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as it had been under the Franco dictatorship. Contains a new critical introduction and language-teaching resources
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 28, 2020)
Subject Grandmothers -- Spain -- Madrid -- Drama
Thieves -- Spain -- Madrid -- Drama
Unemployed -- Spain -- Madrid -- Drama
Hostages -- Spain -- Madrid -- Drama
Grandmothers
Hostages
Manners and customs
Thieves
Unemployed
SUBJECT Madrid (Spain) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
Subject Spain -- Madrid
Genre/Form Drama
Form Electronic book
Author Green, Stuart (Stuart Nishan), translator, editor.
Meyer, Lucy, contributor
Container of (work): Alonso de Santos, José Luis, 1942- Estanquera de Vallecas
Container of (expression): Alonso de Santos, José Luis, 1942- Estanquera de Vallecas. English. 2018
ISBN 1800345259
9781800345256
Other Titles Granny and the heist