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See also:MANUEL TAMAYO Y BAUS (1829-1898) , See also:Spanish dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 15th of See also:September 1829 . He came of a See also:family connected with the See also:theatre, his See also:mother being the eminent actress Joaquina Bans . It is interesting to See also:note that she appeared as See also:Genevieve de See also:Brabant in an arrangement from the See also:French made by Tamayo when he was in his twelfth See also:year . Through the See also:influence of his See also:uncle, See also:Antonio Gil y Zarate, See also:minister of See also:education, Tamayo's See also:independence was secured by his nomination to a See also:post in a See also:government See also:office . The earliest of his printed pieces, Juana de Arco (1847), is an arrangement from See also:Schiller, and Una Aventura de See also:Richelieu, which the author has not cared to preserve, is said to be an See also:imitation of See also:Alexandre See also:Duval . The See also:general See also:idea of his Angela (1852) was derived from Schiller's Kabale and Liebe, but the See also:atmosphere is Spanish, the situations are See also:original, and the phrasing is Tamayo's own . His first See also:great success was See also:Virginia (1853), a dramatic See also:essay in See also:Alfieri's manner, remarkable for its ingenuity and See also:noble diction.' In 1854 Tamayo was expelled from his post by the new Liberal government, but was restored before See also:long by Candido Nocedal, a minister who had been struck by the See also:young See also:man's See also:talent . He collaborated with Aureliano See also:Fernandez-Guerra y Orbe in See also:writing La Ricahembra (1854), a See also:historical See also:drama which recalls the vigour of Lope de See also:Vega . La Locura de Amor (1855), in which Juana la loca, the passionate, love-sick daughter of See also:Isabel the See also:Catholic, figures as the See also:chief personage, established Tamayo's reputation as See also:Spain's leading playwright . Hija y Madre (1855) is a failure, and La Bola de Nieve (1856) is notable solely for its excellent workmanship . It is unfortunate that Tamayo's straitened means forced him to put original See also:work aside and to adapt pieces from the French . Examples of this sort are fairly numerous . Lo Positivo (1862), imitated from Adrien-Augustin-See also:Leon See also:Laya's Duc See also:Job, is well-nigh forgotten, though the Spanish version is a dexterous piece of stagecraft and contains some elements of original value . Del dicho al hecho (1864) is from La See also:Pierre de touche of Jules See also:Sandeau and Emile Angier, and a pleasing See also:proverb, Mds vale See also:Mafia que Fuerza (1866) is a great improvement upon Mme See also:Caroline Berton's See also:Diplomatic du See also:Menage . The revolution of 1868, which cost Tamayo his post at the See also:San Isidro Library, is indirectly responsible for No See also:hay mal que See also:por biers no venga (r868), a See also:clever arrangement of Le See also:Feu an See also:Convent, by See also:Henri Murger's friend, See also:Theodore Barriere . During these seven years Tamayo produced only one original piece, Lances de Honor (1863), which turned upon the immorality of duelling, and led to a warm discussion among the public . Written in See also:prose, the piece is inspired by a breath of See also:medieval piety which had not been See also:felt in the Spanish theatre since the 17th See also:century . This renascence of an old-See also:world See also:motive has induced many critics to consider Lances de Honor as Tamayo's best work, but that distinction should be accorded rather to Un Drama nuevo (1867), a See also:play in which the author has ventured to See also:place See also:Shakespeare and Yorick upon the See also:scene . Los Hombres de Bien (1870) was Tamayo's final contribution to the Spanish See also:stage . His last years were spent in recasting his Virginia, and the result of his efforts may be read in the See also:posthumous edition of his Obras (Madrid, 1898-99) . In 1858 Tamayo was elected a member of the Spanish See also:Academy, to which he afterwards became permanent secretary; and in 1884 the Conservative minister, Alejandro Pidal y Mon, appointed him director of the See also:National Library . He died on the loth of See also:June 1898 . (J . |
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