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Casona was a Spanish playwright and master of the Generation of '27. His work is characterized by the conflict between reality and fantasy, the escape to a better poetic world, the search for happiness, the redemptive power of love, the reality of dreams... The...

Casona, a Spanish playwright and teacher of the Generation of '27, seeks to create in the audience an ethical revulsion based on Western morality and secularized Christian commandments. The Boat Without a Fisherman is a good example of criticism of those who are always...

Alejandro Casona plays with fantasy and reality in his theatre. We are faced with a staging of theatre within theatre, not in the Pirandelian way, but using elements of vaudeville. Trees Die Standing Up offers us a world touched by fantasy and characters that...

Casona, always critical of the ills of civilized society—of the urban world—uses the theme of suicide as a backdrop for the central theme: the happiness and unhappiness of two brothers, two beings to whom fate reveals itself with two faces, like Janus. Justice or...