THEATRE AND UCHRONIA IN 19TH CENTURY SPAIN

This article focuses on the role played by uchronia in the 19th Century Spanish theatre. Difficulties in nation-building process, due to social and political unrest, were underwent with anxiety. Within the liberalism causes of that failure were looked for in the past. Middle Ages were idealized as a period of freedom, broken by the religious intolerance and the political absolutism. Theatre in that century was one of the main places to leisure, but also to educate people. A liberal speech was displayed there from the historical plays. Many of them looked backward to the past, suggesting an alternate history where loads of mistakes throughout the historical development of the country were overcome.