A New Play (Spanish: Un drama nuevo) is a 1946 historical drama film directed by Juan de Orduña and starring Irasema Dilián, Roberto Font and Jesús Tordesillas.De España p.188 It was shot at the CEA Studios in Madrid. The film's sets were designed by the art director Sigfrido Burmann. Pujante & Hoenselaars p.47 It is based on the 1867 play of the same title by Manuel Tamayo y Baus.
Synopsis In Jacobean London, William Shakespeare's company stage a new tragedy. Shakespeare allows the fool Yorick to play the lead, before realising that the new play's theme of jealousy of a spouse closely resembles that of Yorick and his wife Alicia.
Cast Irasema Dilián as Alicia Roberto Font as Yorick Jesús Tordesillas as Shakespeare Manuel Luna as Walton Julio Peña as Edmundo Gabriel Algara as Conde de Southampton Ricardo Acero as El autor Fernando Aguirre as El apuntador Antonio Casas as Jorge José Franco as Lord Mary Rosa as dancer Nicolás D. Perchicot as Pedro
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Bibliography De España, Rafael. Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films. Greenwood Press, 1994. Pujante, Angel-Luis & Hoenselaars, A. J. Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe. University of Delaware Press, 2003.
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