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On March 1, 1836, a young Spanish soldier-he was four months shy of his twenty-third birthday-left his Leganes army barracks without permission to attend the premiere of his first play at Madrid's Teatro del Principe. The Troubadour (El Trovador), the object of much advance publicity, proved to be a resounding success, so much so that the unknown playwright was raucously summoned to the stage to take a bow. Unprepared for such a reception and not dressed for the occasion, Antonio Garcia Gutierrez (1813-84) accepted a coat from Ventura de la Vega, a fellow playwright, in order to look more presentable to his admiring public. If the Duke of Rivas's Don Alvaro o la fuerza del sino (which premie...