Resumen de Candor y tragedia: Federico García Lorca y la poética de La Barraca
To give scholars continuous access to a profound contribution to comedia studies, we republish Stefano Arata's exploration of how Federico García Lorca refreshed and recontextualized Golden Age theater with the La Barraca theater company. Drawing on inspirations from Ramón Menéndez Pidal's innovative philology that recovered Spain's rich ballad tradition, or romancero, Manuel de Falla's avant-garde musical theater, and Salvador Dalí's surrealist artistic vision, García Lorca reconstrued the characters and action of Spain's classical tradition. Scrutinizing archival and photographic evidence of La Barraca's stagings, the article pays special attention to performances of Miguel de Cervantes's entremés La guarda cuidadosa; Lope de Vega's El caballero de Olmedo; and Pedro Calderón de la Barca's auto sacramental, La vida es sueño.
