The prologue as the foundation of the artistic project “Coronas” by Rodolfo Usigli

Abstract

Rodolfo Usigli is a Mexican writer of the 20th century whose contributions to the Mexican dramaturgy include a diversity of texts that express his ideas on the national theatre. Some of those documents are peritexts that accompany each one of his plays having a role in being an extra channel to go in depth in the treated subjects, to clarify ideas prone to be refute and defend their pertinence.

With Coronas, Usigli dialogues with the history, as well as the possibility to use history like a resource in his theatre work. To do so, he uses four peritexts that accompany his trilogy, and which are as prologues and as programmatical texts. The said prologues complement and expand the discussion he stablishes with his plays, conforming an important part in his whole artistic project and stablishing the directives he uses to build it.