Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitan/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farceswritten by Ramon del Valle-Inclan for the theatre. Translated here for the first time into English, the plays demonstrate the dramatist's evolving theory of the esperpento as a satirical genre.
Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitan/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farceswritten by Ram...