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    Buero Vallejo: A Dreamer for the People

Buero Vallejo: A Dreamer for the People

Michael Thompson
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      Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958. In this history play, the first of a remarkable series, culminating in La detonacion ( The Shot also published by Aris & Phillips), the dreamer of the title is the often maligned Marquis of Esquilache, the reformist minister of Carlos III. Buero sets off Esquilache's relations with the king, the aristocracy, his wife and his maidservant against a lively re-creation of the build-up to the famous 1766 Capes and Hats Revolt in the streets of Madrid. Public history and private tragedy are brought together in a complex structure, bringing into clear focus the clash between forces of change and immobility that lay at the heart of both the 18th century and the Franco period in Spain.In returning his proofs, Buero compliments the author of this first translation into English of his play: 'La version de Mr Thompson es muy cuidada y fiel, asi como acertadas y oportunas sus notas'.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Thompson EAN: 9780856685545 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Liverpool University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1994-01-01 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese WIDTH: 149 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: general

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      Michael Thompson teaches in the Department of Spanish and Italian at the University of Durham.
      Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958. In this history play, the first of a remarkable series, culminating in La detonacion ( The Shot also published by Aris & Phillips), the dreamer of the title is the often maligned Marquis of Esquilache, the reformist minister of Carlos III. Buero sets off Esquilache's relations with the king, the aristocracy, his wife and his maidservant against a lively re-creation of the build-up to the famous 1766 Capes and Hats Revolt in the streets of Madrid. Public history and private tragedy are brought together in a complex structure, bringing into clear focus the clash between forces of change and immobility that lay at the heart of both the 18th century and the Franco period in Spain.In returning his proofs, Buero compliments the author of this first translation into English of his play: 'La version de Mr Thompson es muy cuidada y fiel, asi como acertadas y oportunas sus notas'.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Thompson EAN: 9780856685545 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Liverpool University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1994-01-01 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese WIDTH: 149 cm SPINE:

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      Michael Thompson teaches in the Department of Spanish and Italian at the University of Durham.

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