Valle-Inclan: Plays One

by María M. Delgado, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

One of the most significant playwrights and novelists of the early twentieth century

This volume of translations contains Divine Words, a play that draws on pagan, Celtic traditions of the playwright's native Galicia and the repressive Catholicism of Spain to present a distorted picture of rustic life at its cruellest and most hypocritical; Bohemian Lights, the play which first expounded Valle-Inclan's theory of the grotesque (esperpento)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413670902
• ISBN13: 9780413670908
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Berg 3pl
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"