The cultural politics of twentieth-century Spanish theatre : representing the auto sacramental / Carey Kasten.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.

Introduction: autonomizing the Calderonian auto sacramental -- Tradition revised: the auto sacramental in the early twentieth century. The avant-garde rediscovery of the auto -- Francoism and the auto as political mouthpiece restoring the auto: from the battlefield to a national theater -- Tradition overthrown: the auto sacramental in the post-Franco era. Subverting tradition: Francisco Nieva and his sacred irreverence -- Emerging from darkness: national and theatrical revision in Jesús Campos García's A ciegas -- The auto industry: anti-commercialism and the plays of Ernesto Caballero -- Conclusion.

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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.

English.

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