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The Theatre of Valle-Inclan John Lyon

The Theatre of Valle-Inclan By John Lyon

The Theatre of Valle-Inclan by John Lyon


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This is a full-length study in English of the Spanish dramatist Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Written for a theatre of his imagination, these works reveal an early attempt to wean Spanish drama from representational naturalism by the use of cinematic techniques and a heightened dramatic language reflecting broad cultural identities.

The Theatre of Valle-Inclan Summary

The Theatre of Valle-Inclan by John Lyon

This is a full-length study in English of the Spanish dramatist Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Written for a theatre of his imagination, these works reveal an early attempt to wean Spanish drama from representational naturalism by the use of cinematic techniques and a heightened dramatic language reflecting broad cultural identities. John Lyon analyses the plays within a European rather than exclusively Spanish framework. He shows that, philosophically and aesthetically, Valle has links with two avant-garde movements: the turn-of-the-century Symbolism associated with Maeterlinck and Yeats and the anti-tragic values which surfaced in the 1920s and culminated in what became known as Absurdism. The text is supported by an appendix gathering together Valle's more important statements on dramatic theory and is illustrated by photographs of recent productions in Madrid and London. The book will find a readership among teachers and students of European drama as well as those in Spanish departments.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Valle-Inclan and Symbolist aesthetics; 2. The early theatre: Cenizas and El Marques de Bradomin; 3. The hero and his chorus: the Comedias barbaras; 4. Culmination of the collective heroic theatre: Cuento de abril and Voces de gesta; 5. The transitional phase: La Marquesa Rosalinda and El embrujado; 6. Two late farces: La enormorada del rey and Farsa y licencia de la reina castiza; 7. The dynamic tension: Divinas palabras; 8. The metamorphoses of the esperpento: Luces de Bohemia, Los cuernos de don Friolera, Las galas del difunto and La hija del capitan; 9. The hero's return? Cara de plata; 10. The grotesque as tragedy: Retablo de la avaricia, la lujuria y la muerte; 11. Valle-Inclan and the modern theatre; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9780521122474
9780521122474
0521122473
The Theatre of Valle-Inclan by John Lyon
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2009-11-05
244
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