Background
Leandro Fernández de Moratín was born in Madrid, Spain on March 10, 1760. He was a son of the poet Nicolás Fernándezz de Moratín.
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Leandro Fernández de Moratín was born in Madrid, Spain on March 10, 1760. He was a son of the poet Nicolás Fernándezz de Moratín.
He studied in Madrid and later worked for some time for a goldsmith. In 1792 he went to Paris as secretary to Cabarrús (1752 - 1810), Spanish statesman and father of the famous French revolutionary Jeanne Tallien. From 1792 to 1796 Moratín traveled in France, England, and Italy. On his return to Spain he was appointed official interpreter of the government. At the beginning of the French invasion in 1808 he supported Joseph Bonaparte, who made him librarian of the National Library. After the final defeat of the French he was forced to emigrate to France, where he spent the last years of his life. He died in Paris, June 21, 1828.
Moratín was above all a dramatist, although he also wrote lyrical poetry and works of dramatic criticism. His literary criticism, for example Orígenes del teatro españolespanol (1830), demonstrates that he shared the Neoclassic conceptions prevailing at his time, but he felt a certain attraction for the Spanish drama of the Renaissance, with its freedom from rigid rules.
In Moratín's lyric poetry a similar dualism can be found: the poems are Classical in form and pre-Romantic in feeling. His masterpieces are the comedies La Comedia nueva (1792) and El Sí de las niñas (1806). The first is satirical, criticizing the decadence of the Spanish drama of the time, but the real value of the play lies in its character types rather than its critical comments. El Sí, on the other hand, is a faithful picture of the preromantic world. Here MoratínMoratin created a new kind of play: he took an old theme of love and intrigue, and turned it into a work half ironical, half sentimental, and thoroughly original, which was to be imitated throughout the 19th century. He studied in the same city and later worked for some time for a goldsmith. In 1792 he went to Paris as secretary to CabarrúsCabarrus (1752 - 1810), Spanish statesman and father of the famous French revolutionary Jeanne Tallien. From 1792 to 1796 MoratínMoratin traveled in France, England, and Italy. On his return to Spain he was appointed official interpreter of the government. At the beginning of the French invasion in 1808 he supported Joseph Bonaparte, who made him librarian of the National Library. After the final defeat of the French he was forced to emigrate to France, where he spent the last years of his life. He died in Paris, June 21, 1828. MoratínMoratin was above all a dramatist, although he also wrote lyrical poetry and works of dramatic criticism. His literary criticism, for example OrígenesOrigenes del teatro españolespanol (1830), demonstrates that he shared the Neoclassic conceptions prevailing at his time, but he felt a certain attraction for the Spanish drama of the Renaissance, with its freedom from rigid rules. In Moratín'sMoratin's lyric poetry a similar dualism can be found: the poems are Classical in form and pre-Romantic in feeling. His masterpieces are the comedies La Comedia nueva (1792) and El SíSi de las niñasninas (1806). The first is satirical, criticizing the decadence of the Spanish drama of the time, but the real value of the play lies in its character types rather than its critical comments. El SíSi, on the other hand, is a faithful picture of the preromantic world. Here MoratínMoratin created a new kind of play: he took an old theme of love and intrigue, and turned it into a work half ironical, half sentimental, and thoroughly original, which was to be imitated throughout the 19th century. MoratínMoratin was one of the few Spanish authors in the 18th century with a genuine creative impulse.
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