Abstract

MAQUIEIRA, Helena. Sex and Death in Traxicomedia do Vento de Tebas Namorado dunha Forca, of Manuel Lourenzo. UH [online]. 2016, n.282, pp. 32-43. ISSN 0253-9276.

In this paper we review Traxicomedia do vento de Tebas namorado dunha forca. Lourenzo's play is inspired by classical tragedies like Oedipus and Antigone of Sophocles, or Suppliant and Phoenician of Euripides. Play´s message of the work is a hard critic against Franco's dictatorship. From a formal point of view, the play falls into the category of "grotesque", offering a grotesque distortion of characters and situations

Keywords : dictatorship; grotesque; political message; classical tragedies.

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