Name: Retablo Jovial (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejandro Casona
ISBN: 9788441426818

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Casona

Publisher

Edaf

Year

2011

Language

Spanish

Pages

184

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788441426818

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Retablo Jovial (in Spanish)"

El Retablo jovial, compuesto por cinco breves piezas inspiradas en la mejor tradición literaria, responde al intento de culturización de la sociedad española en tiempos de la Segunda República. Los textos son una recreación muy personal de relatos folclóricos o literarios en los que, con cierta libertad, se recomponen con recursos típicamente teatrales lo tópicos de la burla medieval, de la cultura carnavalesca y del teatrillo de farsa: la casada infiel, el viejo celoso, el soldado fanfarrón, el pícaro, etc. Commedia dell'arte con todo su poder de fascinación.

Alejandro Casona

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Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona, or also "El perdido" (Besullo, Cangas del Narcea, Asturias, March 23, 1903-Madrid, September 17, 1965) was a Spanish playwright and teacher from the Generation of '27. His dramatic production, related to the "poetic theater" that emerged from the modernism of Rubén Darío, has certain parallels with that of Federico García Lorca, although his poetics has the bitter taste of survival. He worked as a teacher and later as an inspector, but, from 1931, he dedicated himself entirely to theater.

Before dying in Madrid in 1965, he wrote about twenty theatrical works, in addition to other minor texts. Between 1931 and 1936, Casona animates and directs the "Teatro del pueblo", a company sponsored by the authorities of the republic. Casona became known in literature in the 1930s. Exiled in America, he returned to Spain in 1962, experiencing notable public and critical success and even writing the work that would close his literary career: "El caballero de las espuelas de oro" in 1964.

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