The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal

The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal

"The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal" ("Retablillo de Don Cristóbal") is a play for puppet theatre by the twentieth-century Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1931 and was first performed on the 11th May, 1935 at the Book Fair in Madrid, in a performance in which Lorca operated the puppets himself.Edwards (1980, 35).] Don Cristóbal is a kind of Punch character (which itself was based on Pulcinella), who also appears in García Lorca's earlier puppet play, "The Billy-Club Puppets" (written in 1931).García Lorca (1963, 10, 13).]

Works cited

* Edwards, Gwynne. 1980. "Lorca: The Theatre Beneath the Sand." London and New York: Marion Boyars. ISBN 0714527718.
* García Lorca, Francisco. 1963. Introduction. In "Five Plays: Comedies and Tragi-Comedies" by Federico García Lorca. Trans. James Graham-Lujan and Richard L. O'Connell. London: Penguin, 1970. ISBN 0140181253. p.9-20.

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