La construccion de un teatro nacional republicano: La Segunda Republica y el teatro clasico espanol
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Title
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La construccion de un teatro nacional republicano: La Segunda Republica y el teatro clasico espanol
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:f5874c5139f7:10072
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Creator
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Rodriguez-Solas, David,
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Contributor
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Lia Schwartz | Jean Graham-Jones
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Date
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2009
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Modern literature | Theater | Romance literature
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Abstract
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This dissertation explores the use of a Spanish theatrical tradition in the process of building a national identity during the 1930s. In four chapters I analyze the role of culture in the configuration of collective identities. I begin my query by studying the role of cultural agents in the reorganization of the perception and reproduction schemes regarding Spain's history and culture. In my second chapter, I examine two of the projects sponsored by the Republican Government to foster Spanish classical theatre. Misiones Pedagogicas and La Barraca were two traveling theatre groups that toured Spain's villages and towns presenting a theatrical repertoire aimed at social agency. Chapter three explores the production and reproduction of the nation-building by means of creating a National Theatre. The last chapter focuses on the reinterpretation of Lope de Vega that followed the commemoration, in 1935, of the third centennial of his death, as said commemoration included competing conservative and liberal readings of his plays and the theatrical canon. In my research I argue Spanish classical theatre had a central role in the configuration of the new Republican state.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
