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Baroque Lorca: An Arcaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, a...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-470892023-02-17T10:47:07Z Chapter 5 Writing for the Stage Pérez-Simón, Andrés Lorca, Perfomance Studies, Literary Criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays & playwrights bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies Baroque Lorca: An Arcaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. This book makes special emphasis on how Lorca engaged with the tradition of Spanish Baroque, in particular with Cervantes and Calderón, to break away from the conventions of the illusionist stage. The five chapters of the book analyze Lorca’s different attempts to change the dynamics of the Spanish stage from 1920 to his assassination in 1936: His initial incursions in the arenas of symbolist and historical drama (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, Mariana Pineda); his interest in puppetry (The Billy-Club Puppets and In the Frame of Don Cristóbal) and the two ‘human’ farces The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden; the central piece in his project of ‘impossible’ theater (The Public); his most explicitly political play, one that takes the violence to the spectators’ seats (The Dream of Life); and his three plays adopting, an altering, the contemporary formula of ‘rural drama’ (Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba). 2021-03-08T10:04:33Z 2021-03-08T10:04:33Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47089 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780367820091_oachapter5.pdf Taylor & Francis Baroque Lorca Routledge 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb fbe727ce-8691-4edf-ab3f-8c1bdfac790d Routledge 27 open access
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