This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices; exploring how the factors which led to his emergence as a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic output.

The works themselves are awarded the space that they deserve, combining performance histories with textual analysis to frame Lorca as a playwright of extraordinary vision.

Leading theatre historians and practitioners map a theatrical history that moves from the religious tropes of medieval Iberia to the postmodern practices of twenty-first-century Spain. Considering work across the different languages of Spain, from vernacular Latin to Catalan, Galician and Basque, this history engages with the work of actors and directors, designers and publishers, agents and impresarios, and architects and ensembles, in indicating the ways in which theatre has both commented on and intervened in the major debates and issues of the day. Chapters consider paratheatrical...