Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: The Times and Their Playwright -- The Times -- The Rise of Fascism -- Spanish Civil Warring -- The Post-War Theater -- Censorship in the Theater -- Their Playwright -- Buero Vallejo and Tragedy -- The Ground-breaking Play -- 2: Entering the Silences of Historia de una escalera -- 3: Las palabras en la arena and En la ardiente oscuridad: Structures of the Christian Unconscious -- The Forgiving Jesus -- The Militant Christ-Figure -- 4: Music and Death in En la ardiente oscuridad -- 5: The Biblical Archetypes of El concierto de San Ovidio -- 6: Music as Polyvalent Signifier in El concierto de San Ovidio -- 7: El concierto de San Ovidio: Deconstructing Western Metaphysics and Binary Logic -- 8: Employing Personal Intertexts: The Alcoholic Impresario of El concierto de San Ovidio -- 9: La doble historia del Dr. Valmy: A View from the Feminine -- 10: La doble historia del doctor Valmy as Subjective Drama -- 11: Freudian Fundamentals: Life, Death and Love in El tragaluz -- 12: From Periphery to Center: The Forgotten Muneco of El tragaluz -- 13: El misterio de Elche as Polysemic Intertext -- 14: Philosophy and Interpretation: The Mercantile Modernist versus the Postmodern Situated Self in El tragaluz -- 15: The Uchronian Quest for Simple Truth in El tragaluz -- Simple Truth through Postmodern Philosophy -- and Metatheater -- 16: Foucault on the History of Punishment: Power and Fear in El sueno de la razon -- 17: Deconstructing the 'Soft Bottoms' of La Fundacion -- 18: Jungian Psychology: The Masks of Mortals in Dialogo secreto -- 19: Perspectival Truth and Buero's Controversial Premise in Dialogo secreto -- 20: Validating the Feminine through Art and Music in Dialogo secreto -- 21: Mision al pueblo desierto: A Cultural Study -- Appendix A: Interview with Antonio Buero Vallejo.

Appendix B: Requiem for Buero -- A Personal Note -- Works Consulted -- Index.