Jacinto Benavente
Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 294
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Excerpt from Plays by Jacinto Benavente: Translated From the Spanish With an Introduction Gente conocida was followed by a brilliant succession of satirical comedies, dealing with Madrid society or with the fortunes of political adventurers from the capital condemned for a while to service in the provinces. The Banquet of Wild Beasts and Lo cursi are among the most typical of these plays, in which metropolitan routine is depicted as systematic preoccupation with everything in life which is not worth while. An even more mordant satire is The Governor's Wife, apparently respecting nothing, much less virtue - or is it merely the eternal fool? For the greater part, the plays of this period were written for that most spirited of comediennes, Rosario Pino, and the association of these two remarkable talents, romping and slashing and making holiday together through every convention of the dull, the selfish, the idle, the commonplace, remains in the popular mind as the brightest and most dazzling feature of the modern Spanish stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.