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Comparatively little has been written by him for the theatre, but he has always been a welcome contributor and when, during the year 1900, the Director of the Teatro Español asked him for a piece for the next season he seized the opportunity of advancing, in Electra, his liberal ideas. This drama was represented at Madrid, January 30, 1901, and made a deep impression on the Spanish people.
=Al llegar la noche=, when night came. =Se puso a cantar=, he began to sing. =Nadie se acercaba a él=, no one approached him. =Creyó morir=, he thought that he was dying. When there is no change of subject the dependent verb is infinitive. =Iba perdiendo=, the verb =ir= with the gerund indicates a continually increasing action.
His genius is uneven, but when at his best Palacio Valdés is one of the most charming of modern novelists. His better known works are probably La hermana San Sulpicio and La alegría del capitán Ribot.
For almost half a century after the publication of the Propaladia the Spanish theater advanced but little, for this was the period when Carlos Quinto ruled Spain and kept the national interest fixed on his military achievements, which were for the most part outside of the peninsula.
These are probably the only editions of the play with which Ticknor was familiar when he made his classification of it, for certainly he could not reconcile it with his definition of "comedies on common life," but he could easily accord it with his definition of "comedias de capa y espada."
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