Peter Shaffer en la cultura española

Zusammenfassung

This article focuses on the integration of the works of British playwright Peter Shaffer in Spanish culture. During the Franco period, this author’s plays helped introduce taboo topics on stage, such as homosexuality (Five Finger Exercise / Ejercicio para cinco dedos) or full-frontal nudity (Equus). The successive performances, publications and film adaptations of Shaffer’s plays (Amadeus in particular) have consolidated the playwright’s presence in the country’s cultural life to this date. Following the TRACE methodology, firstly the catalogue of translations of Shaffer’s plays is analysed, paying special attention to the censorship process, and subsequently the available textual corpus is studied, using the tool Taligner. By doing so we try to offer a view of Shaffer’s perdurance in Spain, from 1959 to 2016.