Contemporary Shakespearean direction in Spain: Subsidiary, parallel and post

This article seeks to enquire into different redistributions of Shakespeare’s aura and into different conceptions of authorship articulated around recent stagings of Shakespeare’s works in Spain. Faced, now, with the task of making Shakespeare relevant in a world of diversified cultural offers and a highly competitive cultural market, I inspect three trends in contemporary theatre direction: the universalizing, the localizing and the post-theatrical attitude. The essay reflects on how modern theatre directors negotiate Shakespearean drama and how they confront cultural heritage while at the same time strategically define their attitude towards Shakespeare to claim their own authorial space