Teatro por niños y para niños en la España de mediados del siglo XIX

Abstract

The cultivation and practice of children’s theater, both written for the consumption of children and to be represented by them, lived in the nineteenth century a moment of great expansion, parallel to the general development of the theater industry in Spain. But together with the priority moral and formative dimension of this practice, linked to the schools and domestic life of the aristocratic and bourgeois classes, we also observe in this period an interesting process of commercial «professionalization» of children’s shows quite far from the school environment or domestic, and the existence of texts for children at all childish.

Keywords

• theater
• children's theater
• children
• education
• industry
• 19th century