An Interpretation of “Auto do prisioneiro”, by Ricardo Carvalho Calero

Abstract

As for Carvalho Calero’s playwrights, they can be considered an invaluable contributor to the creation and renewal of Galician theater in the twentieth century, in the postwar period. In his theater, without ascription to any literary current, we can ind from classical proposals to the most modern and even some very close to symbolism and expressionism. Auto do prisioneiro is his favorite work and one of the most representative. Thematically, it relects a «human existential problem», with a vision close to the theater of the absurd and laden with expressionism and symbolism. A work that can be interpreted in a plural way.