La Celestina como emblema del exilio republicano en México: la versión de Álvaro Custodio

Abstract

The stage director Álvaro Custodio (1912-1992), who belongs in his youth to García Lorca’s La Barraca, created during his exile in Mexico (1944-1973) an important company dedicated to Spanish theatre classics. The most representative staging of his company was his own version of La Celestina, first identyfing Fernando de Rojas' heterodoxy with Spanish republicans. The article analyzes in detail causes and decisions in his version, as Melibea's profile as romantic heroine or identification of Pleberio with Golden Century comedy's jealous father.