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The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain »
Authors: David Thatcher Gies
ISBN-13: 9780521020237, ISBN-10: 0521020239
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: David Thatcher Gies
Book Synopsis
This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, which produced more than 10,000 plays.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Introduction: literary history and canon formation | 1 | |
| 1 | Spanish theatre in the nineteenth century. (An overview) | 6 |
| 2 | Theatre and dictatorship: from Napoleon to Fernando VII | 40 |
| 3 | Romanticism and beyond (1834-1849) | 96 |
| 4 | The theatre at mid-century | 175 |
| 5 | "This woman is quite a man!": women and the theatre (1838-1900) | 191 |
| 6 | High comedy, and low | 231 |
| 7 | Conflicting visions: neo-Romanticism, ridicule, and realism | 292 |
| Conclusion | 349 | |
| Bibliography | 353 | |
| Index of names | 371 | |
| Index of plays | 384 |
Subjects
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