THE THEATRE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

David Thatcher Gies

Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994, 392 pp.

[From Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 71, no. 1, 1995.

Published under the title “The Beauty and Business of Theatre.”]

 

In future cent

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THEATRE AND POLITICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN: JUAN DE GRIMALDI AS IMPRESARIO AND GOVERNMENT AGENT

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

David Thatcher Gies

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 257 pp.

[From España Contemporánea, vol. 3, no. 2, 1990, pp. 128-131.]

 

The story of Juan de Grimaldi is improbable, excessive: a

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NICOLÁS FERNÁNDEZ DE MORATÍN

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

David Thatcher Gies

Boston: Twayne, 1979, 184 pp.

[From Hispanic Review, vol. 49, no. 3, 1981, pp. 359-361.]

 

For many a Spanish writer the Twayne series has provided the only book available in E

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DON JUAN TENORIO José Zorrilla

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Edition and notes by David T. Gies

 

Madrid: Clásicos Castalia. 2016, 268 pp.

 

Rereading David Gies’s critical edition of Don Juan Tenorio brings back many memories. I first read José Zorrilla’s

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