The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain

by David T. Gies and Gies David Thatcher

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, a most important genre which produced more than 10,000 plays during the course of the century. David Gies assesses this mass of material - much of it hitherto unknown - as text, spectacle, and social phenomenon. His book sheds light on political drama during Napoleonic times, the theatre of dictatorship (1820s), Romanticism, women dramatists, socialist drama, neo-Romantic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521020239
• ISBN13: 9780521020237
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"