Audience and Authority in the Modernist Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca - Hardcover

C.C. Soufas

9780817308179: Audience and Authority in the Modernist Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817308172 ISBN 13: 9780817308179

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, 1996

This work charts Lorca's specific attitudes towards theatre in relation to his historic audience. The author provides a reading of Lorca's theatre from the vantage point of Modernist aesthetics as well as historical performance dynamics.

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Review:

"Soufas undertakes the important but difficult task of discovering a unifying aesthetic project that underlies all of Lorca's disparate theatrical production, from the puppet farces, to the unpresentable plays, to the well-known canonical works, by looking at the way the dramas address the questions of authority and audience."--Reed Anderson, Miami University

"With a thorough familiarity and grasp of previous Lorcan scholarship (a real achievement in itself!), the author goes on to challenge successfully the sometimes narrow focus of that scholarship and to search for creative authority over the course of his career until his death. The result is a worthy contribution to the understanding of a major world dramatist."--Marion Peter Holt, City University of New York

From the Back Cover:

Audience and Authority in the Modernist Theater of Frederico Garcia Lorca is the first book to provide a reading of Lorca's theater from the vantage point of Modernist aesthetics as well as historical performance dynamics. It is premised on the assumption that Lorca's theater emerges as a consequence of an ongoing dialog with his historical audience, a rather conservative and uncultured milieu that had largely dictated the theater agenda of the Madrid theater scene during the 1920s.

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