An Approach to the Themes of Manuel Linares Rivas' Plays

Abstract

This article analyzes the topics of ten plays by Manuel Linares Rivas, taking into account the socio‑historical context. I try to demonstrate, at least provisionally, that Linares Rivas focuses on issues of a radical bourgeoisie that denies the status quo and criticizes the miseries of the most marginalized groups. In this way, his dramas would approach a radically new theatrical movement, developing in the first three decades of the twentieth century.