Alejandro Casona

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Bust of Alejandro Casonas in Palermo , Argentina

Alejandro Casona ( Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez , born March 23, 1903 in Besullo , † September 17, 1965 in Madrid ) was a Spanish writer.

Casona, who came from a family of teachers, studied philosophy and literature at the Escuela Superior de Magisterio until 1926 and taught at a school in the Valle de Arán from 1928 . In 1931 he went to Madrid and took over the management of the Teatro del Pueblo , with which he realized more than 200 performances throughout Spain as part of the Misiones Pedagógicas . For the work, in which artists such as María Zambrano , Vicente Valls , and Luis Cernuda participated, he received the Premio Lope de Vega . During the Spanish Civil War , Casona worked in France, later he lived in Argentina.

As a playwright, Casona made his debut with the play El crimen de lord Arturo , which was premiered in Zaragoza in 1929. This was followed by plays such as La sirena varada , which was premiered in 1934 by the theater group of Margarita Xirgu and Enrique Borrás , La dama del alba (1944) and El caballero de las espuelas de oro , a drama about the life of Francisco de Quevedo , with the he left the theater stage in 1964.

In addition to his own pieces, Casona also wrote arrangements of plays by William Shakespeare , Lope de Vegas and Tirso de Molinas , a novel and short stories, film scripts and an opera libretto, poems and pieces for children. For the prose volume Flor de leyendas he received the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1932 .

Works

  • Stage works
    • El crimen de Lord Arturo , UA Zaragoza, 1929
    • La sirena varada , UA Madrid, 1934
    • El misterio de María Celeste , UA Valencia, 1935
    • Otra vez el diablo , UA Madrid, 1935
    • El mancebo que casó con mujer brava , UA Madrid, 1935
    • Nuestra Natacha , UA Madrid, 1936
    • Prohibido suicidarse en primavera , UA México, 1937
    • Romance en tres noches , UA Caracas, 1938
    • Sinfonía inacabada , UA Montevideo, 1940
    • Pinocho y la Infantina Blancaflor , UA Buenos Aires, 1940
    • Las tres perfectas casadas , UA Buenos Aires, 1941
    • La dama del alba , UA Buenos Aires, 1944
    • La barca sin pescador , UA Buenos Aires, 1945
    • La molinera de Arcos , UA Buenos Aires, 1947
    • Sancho Panza en la Ínsula , UA Buenos Aires, 1947
    • Los árboles mueren de pie , UA Buenos Aires, 1949
    • La llave en el desván , UA Buenos Aires, 1951
    • A Belén pastores , UA Montevideo, 1951
    • Siete gritos en el mar , UA Buenos Aires, 1952
    • La tercera palabra , UA Buenos Aires, 1953
    • Corona de amor y muerte , UA Buenos Aires, 1955
    • La casa de los siete balcones , UA Buenos Aires, 1957
    • Carta de una desconocida , WP Porto Alegre, 1957
    • Tres diamantes y una mujer , UA Buenos Aires, 1961
    • Carta de amor de una monja portuguesa , WP Buenos Aires, 1962
    • El caballero de las espuelas de oro , UA Puertollano, 1962
  • Edits
    • Marie Curie (in collaboration with Francisco Madrid ), UA Havana, 1940
    • El Anelo de Fenisa after Lope de Vega, UA Buenos Aires, 1957
    • El burlador de Sevilla after Tirso de Molina, WP Buenos Aires, 1961
    • Peribañez after Lope de Vega, UA Buenos Aires, 1962
    • El sueño de una noche de verano after William Shakespeare, WP Buenos Aires, 1962
    • La Celestina after Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla , UA Granada, 1965
    • Ricardo III after William Shakespeare
    • Fuenteovejuna to de Lope de Vega
    • El amor de los cuatro coroneles after Peter Ustinov
  • Prose and poetry
    • La empresa del Ave María , historical novel, 1920
    • El peregrino de la barba florida , poems, 1926
    • El diablo en la literatura y en el arte , Master's thesis, 1926
    • La flauta del sapo , poems, 1930
    • Flor de leyendas , prose, 1932

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literature

  • Alejandro Casona: Retablo jovial , Introducción al teatro de A. Casona, por Mauro Armino, 10th edition Biblioteca Edaf 1983, ISBN 9788471668981