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He was born in Madrid on August 12, 1866. His father was a prominent Madrid physician, a specialist in children's diseases.
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Widow of a distinguished man and her new husband plan a memorial to the great man, only to have their plans undone by a rascally former acquaintance and his scandalous book.
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Benavente must of necessity have conducted experiments in teclinique. Talent of the first rank moulds its own instruments of expression, or adapts those which exist to new purposes. It will be interesting to consider this aspect of theB enaventian theatre in the light of its history, and to anticipate, perhaps, the conclusions of the reader. When Spanish criticism appraised the youthful Benavente as pre-eminently a satirist, it was unquestionably correct in its judgment. Although much of his early work had been serious, and the complexion of his thought as well as his attitude toward life had become apparent by 1893, wit and humor in their diflferent forms were the qualities most characteristic of his genius; they were most personal to it, most original, and most conspicuous. His wit was incisive and penetrating, free from bias in any special connection, exhibiting remarkable power of detachment, but unmistakably, also, it was illuminative of character, with the passage of time growing more many-sided and tolerant. The literatures of theL atin peoples have habitually been hospitable to secondary meanings, double ententes, which in certain languages, such as the I talian, have been erected into definite codes of communication. The idea is unmasked by veiling it. In its cruder phases, the by-play is one of vulgar jest, but in skilful hands, like those of Bracco in his frutto acerbo, it arrives at the dignity of a continual traffic in forbidden subjects, which imparts to the entire work a perpetual grimace of sex. It was apparent to Benavente that here was a medium which was susceptible of wholly different application. More than the sexual motive falls under the social ban. The mind is alive with reticences and reservations far more interesting than any ideas which it may see fit to express. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten B
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CLÁSICOS HOMOSEXUALES Es una colección de libros que intenta rescatar del olvido a aquellos autores que se atrevieron a retratar las vivencias de los homosexuales en las épocas en las que vivieron. Algunos de estos libros tratarán favorablemente el controvertido y prohibido tema, otros serán con objeto de denigrar y muchos tratarán el tema solapadamente. Hay que recordar que la homosexualidad estaba prohibida cuando se publicaron originariamente estos títulos, por lo que muchos autores optaban por la ambigüedad para escapar de la censura, pero introducían algunos guiños que sólo los homosexuales pudieran detectar. JACINTO BENAVENTE Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (Madrid, 12 de agosto de 1866 - Galapagar, 14 de julio de 1954) fue un dramaturgo, director, guionista y productor de cine español, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1922. DE MUY BUENA FAMILIA: Obra de teatro en donde un chico de buena familia se aprovecha sexualmente de un homosexual a cambio de dinero. La tragedia se manifiesta cuando matan al hombre. EL RIVAL DE SU MUJER: En esta obra de teatro queda de manifiesto la hipocresía de la sociedad. Una mujer enamorada del amante masculino de su marido, intentará romper esta relación.
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He was born in Madrid on August 12, 1866. His father was a prominent Madrid physician, a specialist in children's diseases.
Benavente's major successes in the theater had for the most part been performed by 1913. Of the approximately 170 plays of an astonishing variety of types which he continued to write and see performed through 1953, those of importance later than 1913 come perhaps to half a dozen. It is significant that as early as 1922 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. In method Benavente hardly represents the continuation of any native school but rather a familiarity with foreign models such as contemporary French dramatists and classical writers like Shakespeare. His forte is satire of society, subtle and ironic, the satire of the cynical, skeptical, sophisticated observer. Difficult to disentangle in his production are the threads representing the objective social critic and the moralist, the latter becoming more evident in works of his middle and later periods. Almost invariably the work of a skilled technician, his plays are not noted for action (there is often barely a plot) but for dialogue. Thought rather than character may be said to be his interest, with a certain idealism regularly lifting his work above the commonplace and pedestrian. Benavente's first play, El nido ajeno (1894), hints what was to become characteristic, the atmosphere of drawing-room or genteel comedy, urbane conversation, and absence of complicated intrigue. La noche del sábado (1903; "Saturday Night") is the first of several pieces which are artificial and symbolic in spirit and almost lyrical in tone, the characters representing all levels of a decadent international society. Rosas de otoño (1905; Autumnal Roses) is realistic, not a little gloomy, even "preachy"; it has been called a "thesis play, " the subject being marital infidelity. Don Jacinto's masterwork is surely the artistic if unclassifiable Los intereses creados (1907; Bonds of Interest). The meaning of the title is explained by Crispin, the servant and confidant in the play. In Señora ama (1908) the scene is set among the Castilian peasantry, who speak in dialect. The play is a psychological study of a childless woman. Better known is another piece with a rural setting, La malquerida (1913), called in its English form The Passion Flower. The subject is incestuous love. In 1919 appeared the somewhat moralistic El mal que nos hacen ("The Evil That They Do to Us"), which deals with the fault of jealousy. The theme of Alfilerazos (1924), a satire of the reactionary and smug elements of society who hamper real charity and, in particular, religious and social tolerance, recalls that of Los malhechores del bien (1905; The Evil Doers of Good) and points to Pepa Doncel (1928). Called by one critic Benavente's best play after World War II, La Infanzona (1945) returned to the locale of Señora ama and La malquerida. The subject was again incest. His last regularly performed play was Caperucita asusta al lobo (1953). Unmarried, in comfortable circumstances, well traveled in Europe and America, Benavente was a lifelong resident of Madrid, where he died on July 14, 1954. He wrote for love of the theater ("La vida de bastidores me entusiasmaba"), and it was by this work that he achieved honor and recognition in his native city and in theater capitals throughout the world.
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A liberal monarchist and a critic of Socialism, he was a reluctant supporter of the Franco régime as the only viable alternative to what he considered the disastrous republican experiment of 1931–1936.
He never married or had children. According to many sources, he was homosexual.
