Chapter 1 Directors of the Twentieth Century Spanish Stage, María Francisca Vilches de Frutos; Chapter 2 Twentieth-Century Spanish Stage Design, John London; Chapter 3 The Function and Mission of Theatre: Ortega's Idea del teatro, Stephen G. H. Roberts; Chapter 4 *Dedicated to Maria Irene Fornes and the memory of Carmen Fornes (1891–1996)., Maria M. Delgado; Chapter 5 Spanish Sources of Fernando Arrabal's Theatre of the Grotesque: Goya, Valle-Inclán and Buñuel, Peter L. Podol;