Man of the Theatre: Stage Performances of T. S. Eliot’s Work in Spain (1949–2016)

Abstract T. S. Eliot’s presence in Spanish theatres has taken various forms. His verse drama enjoyed a relative popularity the late 1940s and 1950s: Murder Cathedral , The Family Reunion Cocktail Party were staged by student amateur groups, “chamber” companies even national theatre. Reviews ambivalent, most of them finding fault with plays’ poetic density as an impediment for performance. Although, conservative Anglo-Catholic, Eliot was priori unproblematic author Francoist establishment its censorship, critics loyal to National Catholicism uncomfortable tragic fatalism or non-judgemental treatment adultery . When plays losing their appeal from 1950s onwards, only occasionally performed Spain. More recently, intermedial transpositions dramatizations poetry have consolidated his image great influential poet whose is rarity.