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Soufas (Spanish, Tulane U.) provides a performance-based critique of how Lorca (1898-1936) sought to reclaim authority over the stage from the conservative and uncultured Madrid audience of the 1920s and expose them to the more progressive dramatics themes of the wider European stage. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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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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