Shakespearean performance in catalán: Adrià Gual and the emergence of the theatre director (1903–1940)

Cerdá Martínez, Juan Francisco

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Shakespearean performance in catalán: Adrià Gual and the emergence of the theatre director (1903–1940)

dc.contributor.author	Cerdá Martínez, Juan Francisco
dc.contributor.department	Filología Inglesa
dc.contributor.other	Facultad de Letras
dc.date.accessioned	2026-01-29T08:37:57Z
dc.date.available	2026-01-29T08:37:57Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2019 Juan F. Cerdá
dc.date.issued	2019-12-11
dc.description.abstract	From 1898, the year of the foundation of the theatre company Intimate Theatre, to his work at the New Company of Catalan Theatre around the 1910s, to his last stagings as head of the Catalan School of Drama in the early 1930s, Adrià Gual is recognized as a pioneer of Spanish and Catalan theatre direction. In this period of over thirty years, Gual produced dozens of shows that ranged from the classical plays of Greek theatre to the latest texts from European, Spanish and Catalan playwrights. And among these, strategically translated into Catalan, a few of Shakespeare’s dramas helped Gual to develop his project to renovate the Barcelona stage and provide a theatrical model that would encourage the development of Catalan culture. This article analyses the way Gual’s Shakespearean productions were intimately connected at the local level with the educated Catalan elites and the establishment of their cultural identity while, connected to a larger continental perspective, Shakespeare’s plays functioned within Intimate Theatre, New Company of Catalan Theatre and the Catalan School of Drama as an instrument to renovate theatrical practice by resorting to the models provided by European stage directors.
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dc.identifier.citation	Cerdá, Juan F. (2020), "Shakespearean Performance in Catalan: Adrià Gual and the Emergence of the Theatre Director (1903–1940)", Shakespeare 16.3: 313-325.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2019.1690567
dc.identifier.eissn	1745-0926
dc.identifier.issn	1745-0918
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/196329
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge
dc.relation	PGC2018-094427-B-I00 (NACIONAL — Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450918.2019.1690567
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dc.subject	Spain
dc.subject	Catalan
dc.subject	Europe
dc.subject	Performance
dc.subject	Shakespeare
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.title	Shakespearean performance in catalán: Adrià Gual and the emergence of the theatre director (1903–1940)
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