Teatro y violencia: la influencia de la tragedia griega en Martillo de Rodrigo García

Abstract

Rodrigo García (1964-), in his play Martillo (1989), re-writes the Greek myth of the Atreides, moving away from tradition and recreating a unique type of tragedy. This article seeks to establish some parameters to account for the general willingness, on the part of the director, to explore the characterization of classical heroes. We will pay attention to women, particularly to the role of Clytemnestra within a myth based on the internal and external violence of the «oikos».