Ramón Maria del Valle-Inclan: The Dead Man's Finery and the Captain's Daughter: Las Galas del Difunto and La Hija del Capitán

by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

Book Overview

Ramon del Valle-Inclan is one of Spain's greatest dramatists. His particular legacy is theesperpento, a satirical mode combining tragedy and farce and characterised by its use of the grotesque.The Dead Man's Finery (1926) andThe Captain's Daughter (1927) are two short esperpentos that satirise the military, which for Valle-Inclan encapsulated the worst and most retrogressive qualities of the Spanish nation. InThe Dead Man's Finery, Johnny Bluster...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908343249
• ISBN13: 9781908343246
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.2"