Antón Chéjov y Federico García Lorca: "El jardín de los cerezos" y "Doña Rosita la soltera"
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In this paper I focus on two masterpieces of the international theater, The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov, and Doña Rosita the Spinster or The Language of Flowers, by Federico Garcia Lorca. Both texts revolve around a female figure who lives a fictional life and is not able to react to social developments. Both women choose a useless passivity by taking refuge in their gardens or greenhouses and do not dare to confront external reality until the bubble in which they have lived for a long time breaks. The two pieces share several technical and artistic points, as the subject of kitsch, the antagonism of Time and the argument parenthesesDownloads
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