Seneca's Medea and Republican Spain: Performing the Nation

Author:   Dr Oliver Baldwin
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:  

9781855663565


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   18 February 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Seneca's Medea and Republican Spain: Performing the Nation


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Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, this book provides the most detailed reconstruction ever of one of the most important events in Spanish theatrical history. Winner of the 2019-20 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize On 18 June 1933, one of the most important events in Spanish theatrical history took place before an audience of 3,000 spectators in the ruins of the Roman Theatre in Merida. Translated into Spanish by philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, staged by the renowned Xirgu-Borras Company and funded by the government, the performance of Seneca's Medea was a triumph of republican culture and widely hailed for its new dramatic and scenic languages. This book provides the most detailed reconstruction of this pivotal production to date, setting it in context and analysing its origin and legacy. Early twentieth-century intellectuals considered Seneca, 'the philosopher from Cordoba', the epitome of Spanishness and the first in an illustrious line of playwrights stretching from Spain's Roman Antiquity to its Silver Age. His play was seen as the ideal vehicle to showcase the Second Spanish Republic's cultural, social and educational agenda but provoked a furious backlash from opponents to the government's progressive programme. The book shows how the performance became a cultural ritual which stood at the centre of critical discussions on national identity, politics, secularism, women's rights and new European aesthetics of theatre-making. Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, it will be of interest to theatre historians, scholars of Classical Reception and historians of the Second Spanish Republic.

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Author:   Dr Oliver Baldwin
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Tamesis Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.776kg
ISBN:  

9781855663565


ISBN 10:   1855663562
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   18 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: A Spanish Medea in Republican Spain I. Seneca's Medea in Mérida: A reconstruction II. Seneca and Hispania III. Republica nunc sum: Building a Republic IV. Medea and the social revolution V. Hispano-Roman tragedy on a reformed stage Conclusion: The Republican Medea that was in Mérida Bibliography Index

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OLIVER BALDWIN is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Reading.

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