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«10 l. paid to John Navarro for himself and the rest of the company of Spanish players for a play presented before his Majesty. Dec. 23 d 1635. Office-book of the Lord Chamberlain. Collier, vol. II, pág. 69.» 10 l. pagadas á Juan Navarro para él y para los demás de la compañía de actores españoles, por representar una comedia ante S. M., 23 de diciembre de 1635.
Removed to Madrid, and engaged in journalism. Killed himself February 13, 1837, in his twenty-eighth year. Works: Essays on manners, critical reviews, several unimportant plays, and a novel, El doncel de D. Enrique el Doliente . Fernán Caballero knew both the Spanish and the German literatures. Died in 1877.
The "Watermaid" belongs to the largest class of Lope's plays the class in which he excelled comedias de capa y espada. Ticknor erroneously classes it as a comedy "founded on common life" or as styled by others comedia de costumbres, but it is probable he did so without making himself thoroughly familiar with the comedy in its full form.
Pedro, the lackey suitor of doña María, known to him as Isabel, is the prototype of the modern "chulo" whose traits can be traced in his every word and action. Disappointed in his love-making, he loses none of his characteristics of braggadocio and willingly assumes the rôle of defender of Isabel although he himself has been maltreated by the bellicose "moza de cántaro."
Already the leading lady had made her last entry, decked in the richest costume of her wardrobe; her lover, absorbed by the noble bearing of that woman who, although a humble servant, knew, nevertheless, the pompous farthingale as if in all her life she had not worn any other style of skirt; blind with passion and trampling on the respect due his lineage, had approached her and, beside himself, seizing her hand, had offered her his.
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