SOURCE: A review of Las Meninas and Today's a Holiday, in Hispania, Vol. 72, No. 3, September, 1989, pp. 569–70.

In the following review, Compitello praises the English versions of Buero Vallejo's Las meninas and Hoy es fiesta.

As Hispanists we tend to take for granted Antonio Buero Vallejo's right to place among contemporary drama's major figures. Yet the attempt to solidify that position has been hampered by the limited access of his works in translation, especially into English, a factor that has also made difficult his works for English-speaking audiences. Both volumes under consideration here respond to the need to make Buero's impressive dramatic corpus available to the English-speaking public. Furthermore the English version of Hoy es fiesta—which served as the basis for the English premiere of this play—obviously contributes to the work's accessibility to English-language theatergoers.

Few Hispanists have worked as hard to widen the acceptance of Spanish...