La recepción del teatro de Chéjov durante el franquismo según el archivo de censura teatral del Archivo General de la Administración (1948-1978)

During Franco's regime, all theatrical works had to be authorized by the censorship in order to be performed, including Chekhov's theater, whose reception was consolidated in Spain in the 1960s. This article analyzes the censorship files of Chekhov's plays preserved in the General Archive of the Administration. On the one hand, it creates an overview of all the plays that were submitted to censorship between 1948 and 1978, which determines the periods of greatest presence of Chekhov's texts on the Spanish stage, and shows that the short comedies were the most performed and disseminated throughout Spain. Those responsible for this diffusion were the independent, university and school groups. On the other hand, the analysis of the censors' reports and opinions determines that censorship was not particularly severe with Chekhov's theater. It always authorized its representations and only caused slight objections to some of the moral transgressions of the characters.