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Plays by Jacinto Benavente
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 ...
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The Bonds of Interest/Los Intereses Creados
One of Spain's most important dramatists of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1922, Jacinto Benavente y Martínez wrote more than 150 plays in his lifetime. The best known of these is Los intereses creados — a social satire in the guise of farce. Premiering in late 1907, the work was instantly acclaimed throughout Europe. Similar in structure to a puppet drama, the play incorporates such traditional characters from the commedia dell'arte as the Doctor, the Captain, Harlequin, Columbine, Pantaloon, and Punchinello — with Crispin, a crafty and deceitful servant, manipulating them with invisible strings in the fashion of a spectacular puppet master. A sparkling satire on selfishness and greed in the modern world, the drama is reprinted here in a dual-language edition that not only allows students of Spanish to read a brilliant playwright's masterpiece in the original, but also provides readers with an excellent English translation of a theatrical classic.
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