Sobre el nacimiento del teatro social español y su contexto

Abstract

The paper puts to consideration some of the problematic questions raised up the so called “Social Theatre” that turns in the 1890’. After a brief analysis of Joaquín Dicenta’s Juan José -considered by the author a melodrama- it is dealt with the peculiar circumstances of the hispanicization of Hauptmann’s Los tejedores, key play of the European social theatre. El pan del pobre, F. González Llana y J. Francos Rodríguez’s adaptation of the above mentioned German play, is considered to be, both in the and in form, more representative of the Spanish social theatre than Dicenta’s play.