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That she does things unbecoming of her true rank only shows how well she carries out her assumed rôle; that she was not offensive or contrary to Spanish tastes of the times is proved by the fact that, although she was a Guzmán and consequently a relative of the ruling favorite, Olivares, the play did not fall under royal censure.
It too is one of the few plays of the poet which have continued down to recent times in the favor of the Spanish theater-going public, perhaps in the end the most trustworthy critic.
Armando Palacio Valdés was born in 1853 in the province of Asturias. He is one of the most prominent contemporary novelists of Spain. He belongs to that school of writers known as naturalists, and in the opinion of some, he deserves to stand at the head of that school. His novels treat of contemporary Spanish life.
This very Spanish personage dates, in idea, back to the servants of the Celestina and to the simple of Torres Naharro, but in the hands of Lope he is so developed and so omnipresent that he is justly accredited as a creation of the great "Fénix." Martín, the clever but impudent servant, is the leading character in the secondary plot and the only one to whom prominence is given.
Léanse, entre otras, las siguientes obras de Beaumont y Fletcher, cuyo argumento está sacado de otras españolas: The Little french lawyer, de El Guzmán de Alfarache, pág. 2, cap. 4.º; The Spanish curate y The Maid of the Mill, de El Gerardo, de Gonzalo de Céspedes; The Chances, de La señora Cornelia, de Cervantes, y Love's pilgrimaje, de sus Dos doncellas.
His works abound in the inaccuracies and obscurities that characterize hasty composition and hastier proof-reading, but these are forgotten in the clever intrigue which is the keynote of the Spanish drama, in the infinite variety of versification and in the constant and never flagging interest.
»Y should tire mjselfe to reckon the names of all French, Roman, German, Spanish, Italian and English poets, being in number infinite, and their labours extant to approve their worthinesse. »Actors were supported by the Mantuans, Venetians, Valencians, and others: since, by the Palsgrave, the Landograve, the Dukes of Saxony, of Brunswicke, etc.
No hay inglesote de aquellos que atracan por unos días a la punta del Peón que al hablar allá en Cardiff o Bristol a sus amigos de este spanish town, no comience por levantar mucho las cejas, abrir la boca en forma de círculo perfecto extendiendo hacia afuera los labios, y echándose hacia atrás en la silla no exclame: ¡Oh, oh, oh! Sarrió the yeung girls very, very, very beautiful!
He did not make the Spanish drama so much as he permitted it to be made in and through him, and by so doing he reconciled all classes to himself; he was as popular with the erudite as he was with the masses, for his plays have a variety, facility, and poetic beauty that won the favor of all.
"Last night," said he, "will mark a great date in history for the Spanish theatre and for liberty. It is a movement of social and political renovation, Spain demands light and liberty; she demands the right to live under modern, European conditions; she is coming to life."
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