The metatheatre in the interludes (entremeses) of José Julián López de Castro

Authors

  • Federico Briante Universidad de Sevilla

Abstract

Starting from the well-known idea that short theatre is a very favorable terrain for meta-theatricality, in this work we seek to study the meta-theatrical features present in the interludes (entremeses) written by José Julián López de Castro, a Spanish poet and dramatist in the eighteenth-century. The choice of this object of study responds to the low interest that critics have given, on the one hand, to the life and work of this Madrid writer and, on the other, to the subject of meta-theatricality in the short dramatic pieces of the eighteenth-century Spanish.

Keywords:

José Julián López de Castro, Eighteenth-century, Meta-theatre, Theatre within theatre, Theatre about theatre