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Since its Golden Age, Spanish drama has evolved in considerably unintended and unexpected ways with the contemporary playwrights of any present time engaging in experimental forms and treating current political issues intended to modernize, reformulate, and re-conceptualize the State and the stage. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 33 Spanish dramatists from the eighteenth century to the present. Some of these figures have been translated, anthologized, and studied for centuries; others remain known chiefly to specialists; still others are active in contemporary theater and draw critical interest for their innovative work.
Each of the entries is written by an expert contributor and provides an overview of the dramatist's life and art. Each includes a brief biography; a discussion of works, themes, and dramaturgy; an overview of the critical and scholarly response to the playwright's productions; and primary and secondary bibliographies. As a whole, the volume highlights trends, movements, and historical contexts related to modern Spanish drama. A lengthy introductory essay overviews the history and development of Spanish drama since the Golden Age, and extensive bibliographies conclude the work.
List of contents
Preface
Carlos Arniches y Barrera by Nancy J. Membrez
Fernando Arrabal by Peter L. Podol
Max Aub by Arie Vicente
Sergi Belbel by María Delgado and David George
Jacinto Benavente by John Dowling
Antonio Buero Vallejo by Martha T. Halsey
Fermín Cabal by Candyce Leonard
Alejandro Casona by Maria Delgado and David Price
Ramón de la Cruz by Rebecca Haidt
Ana Diosdado by Iride Lamartina-Lens
José Echegaray by Wadda C. Ríos-Font
Antonio Gala by Hazel Cazorla
Federico García Lorca by Ada Ortuzar-Young
Antonio García Guitérrez by George O. Mansour
Agustín Gomez-Acros by Sharon Feldman
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch by Linda S. Materna
Enrique Jardiel Poncela by Douglas McKay
José López Rubio by Marion Peter Holt Francisco Martínez de la Rosa by Robert and Nancy Mayberry
Manuel Martínez Mediero by John R. Gabriele
Alfonso Paso by Nuria Triana Toribio
Paloma Pedrero by Candyce Leonard
Benito Pérez Galdós by Lisa Pauline Condé
José Martín Recuerda by Danise G. Mills
Duque de Rivas (Angel Saavedra) by Alvin F. Sherman Sr.
José Marís Rodriguez Méndez by Martha T. Halsey
Concha Romero by Carolyn J. Harris
Pedro Salinas by Susan G. Polansky
Jaime Salom by Phllys Zatlin
Alfonso Sastre by Nancy Vogeley
Miguel de Unamuno by Robert L. Nicholas
Ramón del Valle Inclán by Felicia Londre
José Zorrilla y Moral by Salvador García Casteñeda
General Bibliography
About the author
MARY PARKER is an independent scholar, former Assistant Professor of Modern Foreign Languages and Classical Studies at St. John's University. She is the editor of
Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1998) and author of
Santas Reinas, Mártires y contesanas, La Mujer en el teatro de Juan Bautista Diamante.
