The cultural politics of twentieth-century Spanish theatre: representing the auto sacramental

Introduction: autonomizing the Calderonian auto sacramental

Tradition revised: the auto sacramental in the early twentieth century. The avant-garde rediscovery of the auto

Francoism and the auto as political mouthpiece restoring the auto: from the battlefield to a national theater

Tradition overthrown: the auto sacramental in the post-Franco era. Subverting tradition: Francisco Nieva and his sacred irreverence

Emerging from darkness: national and theatrical revision in Jesús Campos García's A ciegas

The auto industry: anti-commercialism and the plays of Ernesto Caballero

Conclusion.