Download or read book Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead Man's Finery written by and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farceswritten by Ramón del Valle-Inclán for the theatre. Translated here for the first time into English, the plays demonstrate the dramatist's evolving theory of the esperpento as a satirical genre.