TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Collective suicide: Rafael Alberti's updating of Cervantes's la destructión de numancia
JO  - Modern Language Review
A1  - Gagen, D.
SP  - 93
EP  - 112+310
VL  - 103
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0026-7937
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -