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Armando Discépolo

Personal information
Surname: Discépolo
First name: Armando
Born: 18 August 1887, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 8 January 1971
Biography

Armando Discépolo was the eldest son of the conductor, Enrique Santos, who came to Buenos Aires from Naples and led the first municipal band which composed tangos, including ‘No me arre... (Read more...)

Themes

Discépolo’s plays deal with the experience of the immigrant to the region, characterised by the experience of the Italian immigrant. Italians were by far the most numerous of the verti... (Read more...)

Style

Discépolo’s drama fuses the observational comedy of theatre traditions like the sainete and the género chico with elements of the Italian grotesque characteristic of playwrights such a... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Other works
  • Discépolo, Armando. 1910. Entre el hierro (Among the Iron) (in Spanish)

  • Discépolo, Armando. 1911. La torcaz (The Wood Pigeon) (in Spanish)

  • Discépolo, Armando. 1911. El rincón de los besos (The Corner of Kisses) (in Spanish)

  • Discépolo, Armando. 1912. El patio de las flores (The Patio of Flowers) (in Spanish)

  • Discépolo, Armando. 1921. Mustafá (Mustafa) (in Spanish)

  • Discépolo, Armando. 1922. Mateo (Mateo) (in Spanish)

  • Discépolo, Armando. 1932. Cremona (Cremona) (in Spanish)

  • Discépolo, Armando. 1925. Babilonia (Babylon) (in Spanish)

Useful reading and websites
  • Pellettieri, Osvaldo. 1990. Cien años de teatro argentine (1886 – 1990). Buenos Aires, Galerna (in Spanish)

  • Viñas, David. 1973. Grotesco, inmigración y fracaso. Buenos Aires, Corregidor (in Spanish)

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 28 March 2012.

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