by Alejandro Casona · Edaf · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441426818
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«Retablo jovial» is Alejandro Casona's collection of theatrical pieces, published by Edaf in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Five short plays reinterpret traditional tales and literary sources with farcical games, medieval satire, and carnivalesque spirit. The gallery of characters includes the unfaithful woman, the jealous husband, and the boastful soldier, and the tone recalls the commedia dell'arte. Casona conceived these pieces as educational work during the Second Republic.
The book belongs to the Nueva Biblioteca Edaf collection; the cover features the series Teatro, number 034. Edited and with a prologue by Mauro Armiño.
Aimed at students and those who enjoy classical Spanish theatre and recreations of popular tradition.
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.
