Jean Cocteau and Federico Garcia Lorca: The search for identity

Author

• Genevieve Brand

Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1997

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

The traditional, realist, dramatic concept of coherent character identity is ruptured by the two plays Les Chevaliers de la table ronde and El publico. Cocteau's and Lorca's works, which are usually labeled as surrealist due to their apparently disjointed nature, are actually embodiments of the poet-playwrights' continuing attempts to reveal that identity, including gendered identity, is a performance. The metadramatic elements of the plays such as discourse, costumes and gender are unstable and voluntarily changeable; they have repercussions beyond the proscenium. Cocteau and Lorca invite their audiences to consider the performative nature of their identities.

Extent

75 p.

Comments

FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Adviser: Jill Kruger-Robbins.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1997.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Recommended Citation

Brand, Genevieve, "Jean Cocteau and Federico Garcia Lorca: The search for identity" (1997). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 1167.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/1167

Identifier

FADT15480

Format

pdf