ABOUT THE WORK

El Aire de una Mujer is a one-act satirical play with eight
scenes premiered at Teatro y Circo de Madrid on August
3, 1871. Written by poet and humorist Jose Alcala Galiano,
this literary oeuvre is a representative of a Spanish poetic
form and genre adopting the copla (four verses of four
lines each). A close reading reveals that it uses colloquial
and direct language that is apt for comic effect.