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Beatrice Giannandrea
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.01.014
Ohio University-Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000) was an outstanding Spanish playwright. He reflects on the society, their fears, problems and post war crisis. He well deserves the appellative he was given “the consciousness of Spain”. In this article I analyze the symbols and opposites in three of his plays, two of them of social realism: Stories of a stair, and The skylight, and a historical one: The little girls (Las Meninas). He creates dramas but always with some touches of good humor. Reading Buero Vallejo is understanding the idiosyncrasy of Spain and its people.
Buero Vallejo, Spanish drama, Spanish plays with social content, Theater in Spain, Spain after the Civil War, Symbols in Buero Valejo, The opposites in Buero’s plays
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