Spanish Theater: Key Playwrights and Movements
Theme: Theater español.Valle-Inclan:
Jacinto Benavente
His plays address chronic, often pleasant, concerns and bourgeois prejudices with a soft irony. Dl drama Concepcion: “Inside bourgeois citizens: these dramas are developed in rooms and cabinets d gentry.” “The alien nest.” -Int. cosmopolitan ski resorts, yachts and palaces where princes and princesses coincide. “dl Saturday Night.” -Int. provincial: parochial atmosphere d works are developed in Moraleda. ‘The Governor’. -Int. rural they evolve in the kitchen, the dining room. ‘The unloved.
“Comic Theater”
The brothers Alvarez Quintero, Serafin and Joaquin. ‘The court’, ‘The gay genius.’ -Carlos Arniches, ‘The miracles of wages’. The other side is what I call q grotesque tragedy. At a lower level places gender d quality comic called Astrakhan, whose creator was Pedro Muñoz Seca.
Fede G. Lorca
His production expresses the problems d d life history through a language loaded d d connotations.
First dramas and farce:
Their dramas are related primers cn modernist theater. ‘The curse d the butterfly’. The four farces develop the conflict arising marriage d dl convenience between the old and for people joven.Las farces are formed x ‘The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife.
“Comedies impossible:
Under the name impossible to meet three theater plays: ‘So five years passed q’, ‘The Public’ and ‘untitled comedy.
“Tragedies and dramas:”
‘The House of Bernarda Alba’: the struggle develops between the principle d authority, embodied in Bernarda, dictates years qien d mourning and seclusion for their daughters x d her husband’s death, and the principle of freedom d, shown in Adela, the youngest, remains hidden relationships cn qien Pepe el Romano, the promised d Angustias.Descubierto the fact his sister, Bernarda Pepe shoots Adela died and believe it is suicide.
Valle-Inclan
In his dramatic career is a continued willingness d renewal and a formal and thematic pretension theater cn d d break their season.
Dramas dramatic:
“The marq Bradomin d “, ‘The d barren souls.
“Grotesque:
Distorted certain aspects dl d character situations, producing a vision cartoon, comic and macabre.
Topic: Teatro Buero español.Antonio Theatre d Postwar:
Served two purposes: to entertain and convey the ideology of Franco.
– Teatro d humor:
Enriq Jardiel Poncela, ‘d Eloisa is under an almond tree.’ Mihura Miguel, ‘Three hats d cup’.
– Tea.en exile:
Rafael Alberti, ‘The hag’. Max Aub, ‘San Juan’. Alex Casona, ‘The lady of the dawn.
“Realists:
Vallejo.Alfonso Sastre, ‘bracket to death’. Jose Martin recalls, ‘The savages in Puente San Gil’. Laura Olmo, ‘The shirt.
“Vanguard:
Fernando Arrabal: I think the panic movement whose manifesto expressed the intention to reconcile d with the cruel absurdity. ‘The cemetery d cars.’ Fran Nieva, ‘Pelo storm’, ‘Delusions love dl hostile’.
Symbolists:
x is characterized his accented modernism, his pessimism and d use the symbolism fecuente animal. Jose Ruibal, “the machine to ask,” Man and the Fly.” Miguel Romero Esteo, ‘Pontifical’. Luis Riaza, ‘Portrait of a Lady with a dog.
“Independent Theatre:
Major groups were: The Goliardos, horsefly, The Cathars, Lebrijano Studio Theatre, Teatro Universitario de Murcia, Teatro Border Comediants Els, La Fura dels Baus.
Antonio Buero Vallejo:
His works are a synthesis simbolismo.En d realism and oppose them confrontationally contemplative and active characters characters.
‘History of a ladder’:
In a flight of a tenement takes the lives of some characters powerless to overcome their d indigencia.El location problem is the frustration d centras beings condemned to develop in that space, and no two-way d x represented the characters, the individual and collective, offers real protagonist valida.El response d is the static work dl witness ladder passage of time q is presented as an essential limitation.