Books by David Thatcher Gies

The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s, at a time when censorship, repression, and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation.

This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, which produced more than 10,000 plays. David Gies re-evaluates the canon of texts, uncovering dozens of plays and authors previously ignored by critics, and placing them in the social and political context of their times.