Abstract
Scholars who have written about this play comment on the ties between Femando VIl's repression and Francisco Franco's brutality, illustrating how the playwright turned to history to condemn the then-current regime in a portrayal of three years of Goya's life. This essay proposes that Buero's implementation of this historical context contains an additional comment on the traditional functions of regal power, as evidenced by review of the penal history that informs the action of the play, referencing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish. The study next explores the contextual relations between the theatricalization of punishment and the torture of General Riego and Goya, concluding with an evaluation of the effectiveness of the playwright's denunciation of the two despots.
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