Alejandro Casona

Alejandro Casona ( Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, born March 23, 1903 in Besullo; † September 17, 1965 in Madrid) was a Spanish writer.

Hailing from a family of teachers Casona studied until 1926 Philosophy and Literature at the Escuela Superior de magisterio and taught from 1928 at a school in the Valle de Aran. In 1931 he went to Madrid where he took over the management of the Teatro del Pueblo, with whom he made more than 200 performances throughout Spain under the Misiones pedagogicas. For the work, in which artists such as María Zambrano, Vicente Valls, Luis Cernuda and professionals involved, he was awarded the Premio Lope de Vega. During the Spanish Civil War Casona worked in France, and later he lived in Argentina.

As a playwright Casona debuted with the piece El crimen de lord Arturo, which was premiered in 1929 Zaragoza. This was followed by pieces such as La sirena varada, which was premiered in 1934 by the theater group of Margarita Xirgu and Enrique Borras, La dama del alba ( 1944) and El caballero de las Espuelas de oro, a drama about the life of Francisco de Quevedo, with the 1964 he said goodbye to the theater stage.

In addition to their own songs Casona also wrote adaptations of plays of William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina, a novel and short stories, film scripts and an opera libretto, poems and plays for children. For the prose Flor de leyendas 1932 he received the Premio Nacional de Literatura.

Works

Stage Works El crimen de Lord Arturo, UA Zaragoza, 1929
La sirena varada, UA Madrid, 1934
El misterio de María Celeste, UA Valencia, 1935
Otra vez el diablo, UA Madrid, 1935
El Mancebo que Casó con mujer brava, UA Madrid, 1935
Nuestra Natacha, UA Madrid, 1936
Prohibido suicidarse en primavera, UA México, 1937
Romance en tres noches, UA Caracas, 1938
Sinfonía inacabada, UA Montevideo, 1940
Pinocho y la Infantina Blancaflor, UA Buenos Aires, 1940
Las tres perfectas CASADAS, UA Buenos Aires, 1941
La dama del alba, UA Buenos Aires, 1944
La barca sin pescador, UA Buenos Aires, 1945
La molinera de Arcos, UA Buenos Aires, 1947
Sancho Panza en la Ínsula, UA Buenos Aires, 1947
Los árboles mueren de pie, UA Buenos Aires, 1949
La llave en el desván, UA Buenos Aires, 1951
A Belen Pastores, UA Montevideo, 1951
Siete Gritos en el mar, UA Buenos Aires, 1952
La tercera palabra, UA Buenos Aires, 1953
Corona de amor y muerte, UA Buenos Aires, 1955
La casa de los siete balcones, UA Buenos Aires, 1957
Carta de una desconocida, UA Porto Alegre, 1957
Tres diamantes y una mujer, UA Buenos Aires, 1961
Carta de amor de una monja portuguesa, UA Buenos Aires, 1962
El caballero de las Espuelas de oro, UA Puertollano, 1962

Marie Curie ( in collaboration with Francisco Madrid), UA Havana, 1940
El anzuelo de Fenisa by Lope de Vega, UA Buenos Aires, 1957
El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina, UA Buenos Aires, 1961
Peribañez by Lope de Vega, UA Buenos Aires, 1962
El sueño de una noche de verano by William Shakespeare, UA Buenos Aires, 1962
La Celestina by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, UA Granada, 1965
Ricardo III by William Shakespeare
Fuenteovejuna by de Lope de Vega
El amor de los cuatro Coroneles by Peter Ustinov

La empresa del Ave María, historical novel, 1920
El peregrino de la barba florida, poems, 1926
El diablo en la literatura y en el arte, master's thesis, 1926
La flauta del sapo, poems, 1930
Flor de leyendas, prose, 1932

Swell

MCN Biografías - Alejandro Casona
El Poder de la Palabra - Alejandro Casona

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