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Los Cuentos de Colombine (1908), de Carmen de Burgos, son representativos de la melancolía en las mujeres, cuando aún domeñaba la idea decimonónica que postergaba la autoafirmación de la mujer. Se trata de unos relatos atravesados por la acidia, que De Burgos inocula en unos personajes pertenecientes a la sociedad burguesa de inicios del siglo XX, debido a un entorno patriarcal y a unas rígidas normas sociales que contravienen el anhelo femenino de poder elegir a la pareja deseada. La metodología utilizada está basada en la ginocrítica y en las imágenes de mujer creadas en el discurso literario como trasuntos de la realidad epistemológica dentro de una pragmática social.

Magda Donato (1898-1966) belonged to the prominent group of intellectual women of Spanish Silver Age. She was a writer and an actress. And she cultivated several journalistic genres like articles, interviews, theatrical critiques and reports. In the reports that she wrote to Ahora newspaper (1932-1936), Donato portrays with closeness the way of life, mostly women, destitute from society, like the insane, prisoners or panhandlers; but, she also describes other places like fortune-teller´s office or survival´s way of a theatrical itinerant company. Donato was a pioneer in Spain on this type of reports, because the development´s process of these was made introducing herself in the real stages that she investigated. Playing the role she applied the psychodrama and the mimesis skills for getting reliable information. In this article we will analyze some of the reports from a theatrical aspect.