Two Documents for the History of the Spanish Theatre in the Period of the "Gobierno Intruso"
1991; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 68; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/bhs.68.1.211
ISSN1478-3398
Autores Tópico(s)Literary and Cultural Studies
ResumoImportant studies by Emilio Cotarelo y Mori, Jorge Campos and Emmanuel Larraz comprise the essential bibliography centring on theatre life in the period of Jose Bonaparte's monarchy in Spain.1 The two documents that are here reproduced bring to life this history and contribute significant new information. They vividly present the aspirations and frustrations of the Francophile Spaniards who, for the purpose of winning the Spanish people to their own ideological goals, advised Bonaparte on matters of theatre reform. Standing behind them was a point of view similar to that of Jovellanos, who years before the gobierno intruso wrote of the theatre as a special kind of entertainment, ‘capaz de instruir o extraviar el espiritu, y de perfeccionar o corromper el corazon de los ciudadanos’.2
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