(Hardback)

Since its Golden Age, Spanish drama has evolved in considerably unintended and unexpected ways with the contemporary playwrights of any present time engaging in experimental forms and treating current political issues intended to modernize, reformulate, and re-conceptualize the State and the stage.

(Hardback)

Includes extensive biographical, critical and bibliographical information for 19 major Spanish dramatists who wrote between the end of the 15th century and the death of Calderon in 1681.