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Antonio Buero Vallejo

Personal information
Surname: Buero Vallejo
First name: Antonio
Born: 29 September 1916, Guadalajara, Spain
Died: 29 April 2000
Biography

Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000) is widely considered to be the most important playwright of the Spanish Civil War. He was born in Guadalajara but moved to Madrid with his family in th... (Read more...)

Themes

Buero Vallejo’s plays are often described as tragedies with elements of hope in them. He is interested in exploring in his drama the ways in which individuals are constrained and impede... (Read more...)

Style

Much of Buero’s work was written under Franco’s dictatorship, during which theatre (among other art forms) was subject to a large degree of censorship. This, in part, accounts for the s... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Useful reading and websites
  • Dixon, Victor and Johnston, David. 1996. In El teatro de Buero Vallejo: homenaje del hispanismo británico e irlandés. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (in Spanish)

  • Dixon, Victor. 1980. ‘The “immersion-effect” in the Plays of Antonio Buero Vallejo’. In Themes in Drama 2: Drama and Mimesis, ed. James Redmond, pp. 113-37. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

  • Dixon, Victor. 2007. ‘Music in the Life and Early Dramatic Works of Antonio Buero Vallejo’. In Spanish Film, Theatre and Literature in the Twentieth Century, eds. David George and John London, pp. 237-60. Cardiff, University of Wales Press

  • Doménech, Ricardo. 1993. El teatro de Buero Vallejo, 2nd edn. Madrid, Gredos (in Spanish)

  • Feijoo, Luis Iglesias. 1982. La trayectoria dramática de Antonio Buero Vallejo, Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

  • Gagen, Derek. 1986. ‘ "Veo mejor desde que he cegado": Blindness as a Dramatic Symbol in Buero Vallejo’, The Modern Language Review, 81.3, 633-45

  • González-Cobos Dávila, Carmen. 1979. Antonio Buero Vallejo: el hombre y su obra. Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca (in Spanish)

  • Paco, Mariano de and Díez de Revenga, Francisco Javier. 2001. Antonio Buero Vallejo: dramaturgo universal. Murcia, Cajamurcia (in Spanish)

Entry written by Gwynneth Dowling. Last updated on 5 October 2010.

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