Author: Linda Sollish Sikka
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Author: Antonio Buero Vallejo
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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"This masterful translation of four tragedies by Antonio Buero-Vallejo (1916-2000), Spain's most important dramatist since the 1930s, allows English-speaking audiences to experience the most deeply moving and intellectually rich works by one of the twentieth century's great authors. Patricia W. O'Connor complements vivid translations with generous supporting materials, including a reader-friendly introduction to the playwright's life and work, commentaries on the plays, and photographs of productions and playwright." "Buero-Vallejo's emblematic first play, Story of a Stairway (1949), chronicling decades in the lives of struggling Madrid families, catapulted the young author into prominence. Appearing here for the first time in English, Before Dawn (1953) is a whodunit and the riveting odyssey of one woman 's search for truth that recalls Greek tragedy. The Basement Window (1967), an Orwellian science-fiction experiment, portrays the moral climate of the late twentieth century as judged by ethically enlightened researchers of a distant future. In the first English translation of the author's poignantly relevant final play, Mission to the Deserted Village (1999), a wartime attempt to save an El Greco painting raises questions about how much of its own treasure a culture will destroy to keep it out of enemy hands." "Readers who know Buero-Vallejo's plays will celebrate O'Connor's sparkling translations. Those who haven't yet read Buero-Vallejo will find a very moving introduction in this collection."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Marsha Forys
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821002
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Susan Willis-Altamirano
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Catherine O'Leary
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855661110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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This monograph examines the complex relationship between Antonio Buero Vallejo [1916 - 2000] and the ideologies of Francoist and post-Franco Spain. This monograph examines the complex relationship between Antonio Buero Vallejo [1916 - 2000] and the ideologies of Francoist and post-Franco Spain. The central focus of the study is Buero's political theatre and his employment ofmyth and history to challenge the notion of an España eterna. It also considers Buero's creation of his own myths and his revision of history in order to rationalize and justify his own stance. In his determination towrite and stage committed drama in a repressive society, Buero's choice, with its inherent contradictions and ambiguities, was posibilismo. This book looks at this pragmatic employment of language and silence, both in his art and in his dealings with the censors and with other representatives of the hegemony and analyses how posibilismo both aided and limited him. The monograph also considers Buero's neglected post-Franco theatre, examining the reasons for its initial negative reception and its renewed importance in today's Spain. In these days of digging up the past, Buero's post-Franco insistence on rejecting the pacto de olvido is perhaps more relevantthan ever before. CATHERINE O'LEARY lectures in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Author: Margaret Hudson Williard
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Marion Peter Holt
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Rose Aileen Canfield
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Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Elizabeth Ann Freeman
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Katrina Heil
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781803740911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book explores Antonio Buero Vallejo's use of the theater for historical memory activism, countering the assumption that Spaniards have only recently taken up this issue. His theory of tragedy is rarely recognized as an influence on contemporary Civil War tragedies, which are appearing with increasing frequency on Spanish stages.