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This book addresses seventeenth- and twentieth-century Spanish theater, providing close readings of plays and their performances as well as the cultural and political climates in which these plays were produced. This is the first book dedicated to the study of the twentieth-century auto, and the book's unique cross-temporal approach appeals to a broad range of scholars of Spanish studies.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Autonomizing the Calderonian Auto Sacramental
Section I: Tradition Revised: The Auto Sacramental in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter One: The Avant-Garde Rediscovery of the Auto
Reviving the Calderonian Auto: An Avant-Garde Project
Rewriting the Auto: The Aesthetic Turns Political
Chapter Two: Francoism and the Auto as Political Mouthpiece
Restoring the Auto: From the Battlefield to a National Theater
Recalling the Fascist Auto: Miguel Hernández and Gonzalo
Torrente Ballester Search for Autoridad
Section II: Tradition Overthrown: The Auto Sacramental in the Post-Franco Era
Chapter Three: Subverting Tradition: Francisco Nieva and His Sacred Irreverence
Chapter Four: Emerging from Darkness: National and Theatrical Revision in Jesús Campos García's A ciegas
Chapter Five: The Auto Industry: Anti-Commercialism and the Plays of Ernesto Caballero
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Author
About the author
Carey Kasten is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University.
