Raquel Merino Álvarez: Dramatic texts translated and censored in Franco's Spain in the sixties: theatre and cinema as controlled art

Abstract

This article presents research on the use of the Francoist censorship system for the assessment of English-language drama; describes the research process; provides the actual findings; and acquaints the reader with cultural, social, and political context of the film and theatre texts translated in Spain in the 1960s.

Keywords

• censorship
• Francoism
• 60s of the 20th century
• dramatic texts
• translation