María del Pilar Martínez Olmo. “La España Dramática. Colección de obras representadas con aplauso en los teatros de la Corte (1849-1881)”. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, 2008, 651 p

Abstract

The reviewed book collects the theatrical works of the La España Dramática gallery of the 19th century in Spain. It is a compilation that in this edition aims to reconstruct, through physical and digital bibliography, categorization into subgenres and analysis of the representations of the works. Three parts structure the book: the first is responsible for contextualizing the operation of the theater of nineteenth-century Spain and its edition; the second delves into the entire repertoire of Dramatic Spain; the third is made up of numerous indices to search for the works through their authors, their edition dates, their translations... The work of organizing the works, the clear and precise indices and appendices, as well as its main objective, is very remarkable: rebuild that nineteenth-century theater gallery.