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La vanguardia teatral en Espana (1965-1975): del ritual al juego. By OSCAR CORNAGO BERNAL (Biblioteca Filologica Hispana, 44) Madrid: Visor Libros. 2000. 304 pp. 16.82 [euro]. ISBN 84-7522-848-5.
Discurso teorico y puesta en escena en los anos sesenta: la encrujada de los 'realismos'. By OSCAR CORNAGO BERNAL. (Anejos de Revista de literatura, 50) Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto de la Lengua Espanola. 2001. 677 pp. 39.67 [euro]. ISBN 84-00-07904-3.
Every now and then a book comes out that allows for a radical requestioning of its subject area, articulating provocative questions around the discipline and its documentation. Oscar Cornago Bernal has given us not just one book but two, published in consecutive years, that fit within this category. Both are impeccably researched and beautifully written. Both ask us radically to rethink areas of Spanish theatre history that have been primarily viewed through the prisms of not terribly distinguished dramatists who failed to carve a place within the international arena. In re-presenting the 1960s in Discurso teorico y puesta en escena en los anos sesenta and the final decade of the Franco era (1965-75) in La vanguardia teatral en Espana, Cornago Bernal offers a fresh examination of a period which has too often been viewed as theatrically tame and turgid.
What is especially impressive is that both books cover very different territory. La vanguardia teatral looks at avant-garde performance both through a concentration on specific productions staged between 1965 and 1975 and through a...
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