The relevance of Lope de Vega's theatre in the 1930s: Its presence on the Spanish stage and its reception

This article analyses the presence of Lope de Vega's theatre on the Spanish stage of the 1930s, with special attention to the plays staged in Madrid, and focusing on its reception and interpretation. In these years, classical theatre began to offer samples of the dramaturgical renovation that critics had been demanding for the scene since the previous decade. In this sense, the case of Lope de Vega is especially interesting, since he is one of the most popular Golden Age authors of the time, and because of the celebration of the tercentenary of his death, in 1935. Furthermore, the turbulent socio-political circumstances of these years connected one of his plays, Fuente Ovejuna, with the Spanish reality at the time.