Reworking and Rewriting the Grecolatin Classics in Galician Dramatoc Literature: Towards the Reconfiguration of the Theatrical Canon

Abstract

The canon of contemporary Galician dramatic literature often dispenses with the enormous textual production that focuses on the reinterpretation and re-elaboration of the Greco-Latin classics, a thematic trend that first entered the Galician dramatic repertoire in the second half of the 20th century and that largely continues to this day. On the one hand, this article examines the circumstances in which the contact between the classical tradition and Galician theater occurs, as well as how, and under what conditions, are the different playwrights influenced by this tradition and how they have reinterpreted this legacy in the most various literary contributions. On the other hand, this project also analyses the problematic inclusion of these varied results in the canon of Galician drama, and tries to advance a proposal for change and/or expansion. These issues are placed within the framework of the unique and complex diachronic evolution of the entire Galician theatrical system, whose historically precarious and marginal situation has had a significant impact on these matters.