Ataúlfo and Aliatar: Political and Cosmic Irresolution in Ángel de Saavedra’s Earliest Plays

Authors

Christine Blackshaw Naberhaus

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Decimonónica

Volume

13

Issue

2

Publisher

Decimonónica

Publication Date

2016

First Page

18

Last Page

31

Abstract

As a playwright, Ángel de Saavedra, more often identified as duque de Rivas, is largely remembered for Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino, even though he wrote fourteen other plays, some of which enjoyed considerable popular and critical success.¹ This remains true even as long-lost plays, such as Ataúlfo and Doña Blanca, have resurfaced, and as scholars have emphasized the need to study all of Rivas’s theatrical works, and not just his best-known ones (Blackshaw Naberhaus 373; Materna 603; and Shaw, “Ataúlfo” 231).

Recommended Citation

Blackshaw Naberhaus, Christine, "Ataúlfo and Aliatar: Political and Cosmic Irresolution in Ángel de Saavedra’s Earliest Plays" (2016). Decimonónica. Paper 70.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/decimononica/70