Spanish Theater in the Early 20th Century: 1900-1936
Introduction
In late 19th-century Spain, the naturalist aesthetic, based on the reflection of environments and human problems, emerged. These new ideas found a very receptive audience and a stagnant theatrical structure. The Spanish theater of the first third of the century is divided into commercial theater, which reached the public and bourgeois triumphs, and innovative theater, bringing new techniques and ideological approaches, but it was a minority. Also of interest is the verse drama by Eduardo
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Pre-Theater 1936
In the theater before the Civil War, two orientations are distinguished: a commercial theater and a theater of renovation. The commercial theater includes works that respond to the more conventional tastes of the audience of the time:
- Bourgeois ambiance comedies (Roses of Autumn) and rural melodramas (The Unloved) by Jacinto Benavente.
- Comic drama by Carlos Arniches (Caciques) and brothers Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (Those of Cain).
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Regulation
Objective
Try to get more points than the opposing team.
Pitch
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Material
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