Description
Book SynopsisAcross a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Pre-Columbian Drama in America
- 2. New World Elements in Early American Drama
- 3. Paraguayan Drama
- 4. The Guaraní Theatre of Paraguay
- 5. Uruguayan Drama
- 6. Springs of Drama in the River Plate Region
- 7. Beginnings of Argentine National Drama
- 8. Florencio Sánchez
- 9. The “Gringa” Theme in River Plate Drama
- 10. Well-Known Twentieth-Century Argentine Dramatists
- 11. Some Contemporary Argentine Dramatists
- 12. Early Actors and Actresses of Latin America
- 13. Beginnings of Drama in Chile
- 14. Chile’s National Theatre
- 15. The Contemporary Chilean Theatre
- 16. Peruvian Drama
- 17. Bolivian Drama
- 18. Drama in New Granada
- 19. The Theatre in Independent Ecuador
- 20. The Colombian National Theatre
- 21. Independent Venezuela and Its Theatre
- 22. The Theatre in Panama
- 23. The Theatre in Puerto Rico
- 24. The Theatre in the Dominican Republic
- 25. Cuban Drama
- 26. Costa Rican Drama
- 27. Nicaraguan Drama
- 28. Drama in Honduras
- 29. Drama in El Salvador
- 30. Drama in Guatemala
- 31. Mexico’s Theatre over 375 Years
- 32. Twentieth-Century Mexico and Its Theatre
- Appendix: A Reading List of Spanish American Plays
- Bibliography
- Index
