Theatre and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain - Juan De Grimaldi As Impresario and Government Agent

Klappentext The first in-depth study of Grimaldi's involvement in the literary and political progress of nineteenth-century Spain. Zusammenfassung The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s! at a time when censorship! repression! and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Spanish stage, 1800-23; 2. Grimaldi at the beginning of the 'Ominous Decade'; 3. On the eve of romanticism; 4. The romantic stage; 5. Grimaldi: journalist, historian, diplomat; 6. Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Thatcher Gies
• Assisted by: Herbert S. Klein (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021012
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02101-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet