Divertissement as Distraction in Lorca's La zapatera prodigiosa

Lorca's description of La zapatera prodigiosa as a issues a challenge that critics have accepted, either to contend, as E Allen Josephs has done, that violence derives . . . from its theatrical technique (55), or to question the validity of the dramatist's choice of word, as in Antonio Espina's comment on esta deliciosa farsa que el autor califica de sin ninguna raz6n. The choice of violenta is as calculated as that of

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