by Miguel Mihura · Santillana Educación, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420470238
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Tres sombreros de copa» is the play by Spanish dramatist Miguel Mihura, published by Santillana Educación in paperback (152 pages, in Spanish).
Dionisio, a modest civil servant, is about to marry for convenience when he meets Paula, a cabaret dancer. The absurd situations and bittersweet humour serve Mihura to criticise bourgeois conventions and show the tension between freedom and a comfortable life.
Written in 1932, it premiered twenty years later. This 2006 edition is part of Alfaguara's Red Series, with a prologue by Manuel Longares and a study by Anselmo Rosales Montero.
For young readers aged 14 and up; it is common reading in secondary schools to approach classic Spanish theatre.
Miguel Mihura Santos was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa (1952), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre. He was also active as a comics artist.
