It may well be the sheer virtuosity of its writing that has
deprived English audiences hitherto of an opportunity to appreciate
Los cuernos de Don Friolera. This comic masterpiece by Spain's most
innovative modern dramatist provides a provocatively sardonic
treatment of marital infidelity and honourable revenge. Intricate
in construction and thoughtful in the issues it raises, the play is
nonetheless vivid in its impact as it veers disconcertingly between
witty debate, uproarious farce and ludicrously overblown melodrama.
The traditions and institutions which, in the 1920s (and, in some
cases, for most of this century), blocked Spain's path to
modernization and progress are mercilessly lampooned. The
translation seeks to convey the dramatic point of the dialogue, its
innuendos, allusions and shifts of register, rather than a strict
literalness.
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