Dogma and Propaganda. Franco’s Identity Construction through the Sacramental Plays of Calderón. Apologetic Texts in the Prehistory of the Regime

Abstract

This paper studies an unpublished text by Felipe Lluch with the title Del gran teatro de España, which turns out to be one of the first texts of the beginning of the postwar period that claims a fascist theater, based on the supremacy of the religious theater of the Golden Age, specifically of the sacramental plays of Calderón de la Barca. Lluch’s text is a magnificent example of the complex relationships between literature, dogma and propaganda.

Keywords

• felipe lluch
• postwar
• golden age theater
• sacramental plays
• calderón de la barca
• propaganda