by Miguel Mihura · Espasa-Calpe. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423918638
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«Tres sombreros de copa» is the stage comedy by Miguel Mihura published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (133 pages, in Spanish).
Written in the early 1930s, it was not staged until twenty years later and caused scandal and astonishment. Critics saw it as a break with earlier comic theatre and a forerunner of the theatre of the absurd: it pits the provincial bourgeoisie bound by conventions against outcasts who seek freedom and reject hypocritical morality.
Edition by Antonio Tordera, professor at the University of Valencia and author of works on theatrical semiology, for the Austral Collection, volume 63; published in 1988.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish theatre and the origins of the theatre of the absurd.
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.
