Based on the analysis of Mateo (1923) by Armando Discépolo, we reflect on the “grotesco criollo”, a poetics of Argentine theater that begins with this dramatic text, as a territorialization of the transpoetics of the grotesque. We understand transpoetics in terms of Comparative Theater and Comparative Theatrical Poetics, as a long-lasting poetics which remains constant through the centuries and is territorialized in each epoch and each context with specific variations.

Based on the analysis of Mateo (1923) by Armando Discépolo, we reflect on the “grotesco criollo”, a poetics of Argentine theater that begins with this dramatic text, as a territorialization of the transpoetics of the grotesque. We understand transpoetics in terms of Comparative Theater and Comparative Theatrical Poetics, as a long-lasting poetics which remains constant through the centuries and is territorialized in each epoch and each context with specific variations.