by Miguel Mihura · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467033410
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«Tres sombreros de copa» is the theatrical comedy by Miguel Mihura, published by Austral in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The play confronts two irreconcilable worlds: that of the provincial bourgeoisie, enslaved by conventions, and that of marginalized characters who seek freedom and reject hypocritical morality. Its skeptical humor was read as a break with earlier comic theater and as a precursor to the theater of the absurd.
Written in 1932, the play was not premiered until 1952; this Austral edition, published in 2010, belongs to the Contemporánea collection and includes a reading by Antonio Tordera.
It will interest readers of twentieth-century Spanish theater and those who want to learn about the origins of the theater of the absurd.
Miguel Mihura Santos was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa (1952), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre. He was also active as a comics artist.
