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Perseo y Teseo en Emilio Carballido

2008, Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 37

The Mexican playwright Emilio Carballido wrote about the middle of twentieth century two plays of mythical theme: Medusa and Teseo. His adaptations of Greek myth take into account for first time the heroes’ feelings. Both plays have to be analysed together, because they are complementary, let us justify mythical innovations, and show how their funny condition is not a parody of the Greek myth.