RAMÓN GÓMEZ DE LA SERNA Y LA NOVELA

Este estudio, ampliamente documentado, somete la obra del poeta José María Heredia (1803-1839) a una rigurosa relectura, tomando como punto de partida la muy comentada "melancolicidad" de este autor cubano.

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

Descubrir a Susan Glaspell, una de las voces más carismáticas y originales de principios del siglo XX, es una apasionante sorpresa. Cofundadora de los Provincetown Players, se dejó arrastrar por los sueños e ideales de su marido, para crear un teatro vanguardista genuinamente norteamericano. Las consagradas dotes de esta dramaturga enmarcan en el espacio temporal de la conducta humana las cuatro breves obras recogidas en este volumen escritas para los Provincetown Players. Deseos suprimidos, Nimiedades, Cierra el libro y El pueblo son obras protagonizadas por variopintos personajes,...