The Spanish comic theater of the early twentieth century

In the first decades of the XNUMXth century, a , what was made for entertain to the public, which flocked to the representations to be able to attend this type of event that always had the support of the spectators.

The brothers Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero They were two of the masters in this type of theater. His works, generally set in Andalusia, do not reveal any kind of background but are limited to representing life in a flat way but with dialogues full of graces that delighted the audience.

Pedro Munoz Seca was another of the outstanding ones in this field of theater, when he created the Astrakhan that began being represented only in intervals of the serious theater as a rest. This prolific author has left us more than three hundred works.

Finally we cannot forget the figure of Carlos Arniches, that seeing the sainete exhausted, two new modalities were removed from his sleeve, the extensive sainete and the grotesque tragedy, which offered him new possibilities, especially the second of them since it served him to include weighty content in the works and criticize and denounce the evils and injustices of society at that time.

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Source - Oxford University Press