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Actualizado: 2 de julio de 2025

"At the end of the first act," says the Imparcial, "the applause was frantic." The last word of the play, "resucita," is not only the key note of the drama, but the summing up of Galdós' desires, and the expression of his ambition for his country and his countrymen. The purpose of the play and the spirit of the author are accurately voiced by Lopez Ballesteras, in the Heraldo, January 31, 1901.

Benito Pérez Galdós - Electra

The disguising of a lady of the highest nobility and making her play so well the part of the lowly water-maid furnish the key to the intrigue and would not detract from the play in the eyes of the contemporary, following upon the reign of the pastoral and according as it did with the tastes of the times.

Lope de Vega - La moza de cántaro