Download or read book The Theatre of Valle-Inclan written by John Lyon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-12-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the Spanish dramatist RamØn del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). John Lyon shows that Valle has links with two avant-garde movements: the turn of the century Symbolism associated with Maeterlinck and Yeats, and the anti-tragic values which surfaced in the 1920s and culminated in Absurdism.