El teatre català a Tarragona en la segona meitat del segle XIX (1864-1880)

Identifier:  TDX:2234

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2234

Authors:  Vila Fernández, Anna Maria

Abstract:
This thesis is an accurate description of the theatrical life in Tarragona between 1964 and 1880. More specifically, it focuses on the Catalan dramatic performances starting from a polyhedric approach to the artistic event. Accordingly, our vision is not centred exclusively on the playwright/play and its historical and literary context, but also analyses the spaces in which they were performed and the performers who brought them to life. The methodology followed for the study, beyond the research on historical collections, libraries and other documentation centres, has been the systematic extraction of the local newspaper archives, fundamental data in the chapter regarding the billboard analysis. The major objective of this study is to place the Tarragona’s nineteenth-century theatrical life within the context of the theatrical life in the whole Catalan-speaking area and understand how different changes on the performing arts during this period were received and assimilated. In contrast with the rest of the studied subjects, the billboard analysis covers a deliberately limited period of time. This part goes more deeply into the phase of the process in which the writers, and particularly the playwrights, assumed the fact that the Catalan language was not just language of the tribe but also city language, in the words of Joaquim Mallafrè. Thus, since the 1860s and alongside the tipping point of Frederic Soler’s success in the Passeig de Gràcia summer theatres (1864), the sainet stage is left behind for higher dramatic forms (BACARDIT I GIBERT 2003: 108) and a folk culture in Catalan language is consolidated.