@article{ref1,
title="Collective suicide: Rafael Alberti's updating of Cervantes's la destructión de numancia",
journal="Modern Language Review",
year="2008",
author="Gagen, D.",
volume="103",
number="1",
pages="93-112+310",
abstract="La destruction de Numancia, the tragedy wherein Cervantes depicted the Iberians' collective suicide rather than surrender to the invading Romans, was twice adapted by Rafael Alberti, first in 1937 in a Madrid besieged during the Spanish Civil War, and then in 1943 in the changed circumstances of his post-war exile in Latin America. The article considers Alberti's rereading and pruning of the Cervantine text, and the work of the actress-directors, Alberti's wife Maria Teresa Leon in 1937 for an audience of soldiers, and Margarita Xirgu in Montevideo in 1943, for an audience that might view Numantia's collective suicide very differently. © Modern Humanities Research Association 2008.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0026-7937",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}