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Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".[1]
Born inMadrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics.
Aliberalmonarchist and a critic ofsocialism, he was a reluctant supporter ofFrancoist Spain as the only viable alternative to what he considered the disastrous republican experiment of 1931–1936. In 1936 Benavente's name became associated with the assassination of the Spanish poet and dramatistFederico García Lorca. This happened when the Nationalist newspapersEstampa,El Correo de Andalucia, andIdeal circulated a fake news story that Lorca had been killed as a reprisal for the Republican murder of Benavente.[2] Benavente died in Aldeaencabo de Escalona (Toledo) at the age of 87. He never married. According to many sources, he was agay man.[3][4]
Jacinto Benavente Monument inside Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain
Jacinto Benavente wrote 172 works. Among his most important works are:[5][6]
El nido ajeno (Another's Nest, 1894), comedy, three acts.
Gente conocida (High Society, 1896), satirical scenes of modern life, four acts.
La Gobernadora (The Governor's Wife, 1901), comedy, three acts.
La noche del sábado (Saturday Night, 1903), stage romance, five divisions; Imperia is a ballerina and later prostitute who falls in love with Prince Miguel, who will take the throne of Swabia.
Rosas de otoño (Autumnal Roses, 1905), sentimental comedy, three acts.
Los intereses creados (The Bonds of Interest, 1907), comedy of masks based on the Italiancommedia dell'arte; Benavente's most famous and often performed work.
Señora ama (The Lady of the House, 1908), rural drama; a penetrating psychological study of a woman jealous of her husband.
El príncipe que todo lo aprendió en los libros (1909)
^Frenz, Horst, ed. (1969)."Jacinto Benavente - Biographical".Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, NobelPrize.org.Archived from the original on Jan 5, 2016. Retrieved27 December 2015.
