Author: Peggy Jane Kauffman
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Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Dorothy Elizabeth Yada
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Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410358224
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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A Study Guide for Antonio Buero Vallejo's "The Sleep of Reason," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author: Antonio Buero Vallejo
Publisher:
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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: David Ernest Prowse Johnson
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 774

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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: Joelyn Ruple
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: Ray Lett
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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Robert L. Nicholas
Publisher: [Chapel Hill] : Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina
ISBN:
Category : Spanish drama
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Martha T. Halsey
Publisher: Dovehouse Editions Canada
ISBN:
Category : Spanish drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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