by Dario Fo · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478443987
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Misterio bufo is Dario Fo's most famous work, a significant text in his research on the roots of popular theater. This work, translated into Spanish, grotesquely revisits the sacred representations of tradition. Through the figure of the minstrel, Fo exposes the moral corruption of the clergy during the papacy of Boniface VIII and parodies the resurrection of Lazarus and the wedding at Cana, turning them into metaphors of current reality. According to the author, theater has always been the main means of expression and agitation of ideas for the people.
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre". Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
