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Once the most popular form of Spanish entertainment short of the bullfight, the zarzuela boasts a long history of bridging the categories of classical and popular art. It is neither opera nor serious drama, yet it requires both trained singers and good actors. The content is neither purely folkloric nor high art; it is too popular for some and too classical for others. In Zarzuela, Janet L. Sturman assesses the political as well as the musical significance of this chameleon of music-drama. Sturman traces the zarzuela's colorful history from its seventeenth-century origins as a Spanish court entertainment to its adaptation in Spain's colonial outposts in the New World. She examines Cuba's piv...
"Relación biográfica del dramaturgo chileno, con algunas notas periodísticas sobre su producción teatral. Se incluye Del brazo y por la calle, comedia en tres actos con dos personajes, estrenada en Buenos Aires en 1939"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Representative collection of playwrights from the sixteenth century to the present, serving as a summary introduction to the range of work carried out in Latin American drama. The dramatists selected have been limited to those from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Central and South America.