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In the domain of letters the Spanish-speaking peoples of America have been slower than their Peninsular cousins to throw off the yoke of French imitation. Most young men of wealth in Spanish America are educated in Paris, and their Castilian shows unmistakably the effect of their long residence in France.
Madrid, with all its unsightliness, was one of the most brilliant courts of Europe and attracted to itself the most gifted subjects of the realm.
»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.
In front of the stage and around the walls were benches, those in the latter position rising in tiers. On the left hand and on a level with the ground was the cazuela or women's gallery. The ground to the rear of the benches in front of the stage was open and formed the "standing-room" of the theater.
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.
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.
France, on the other hand, is so situated as to feel the cross-currents of European life. Do not these facts explain, at least in part, the relatively insular characteristics of much contemporary Spanish literature? The Spanish literature, however, by its very provincialism is fascinating to those who are interested in Spanish civilization.
Lope left the service of the Duke of Alba on his return to Madrid, or about that time, and during the next decade held similar positions under the Marqués de Malpica and the Conde de Lemos, and during a large part of this period he led a more or less vagabond existence wherever the whims of his employers or his own gallant adventures led him.
From her first sad notes of "Bramando está el pueblo indómito" to her last despairing cry of "Ya estás vengada" we do not for a minute lose sight of the mortal conflict in her soul between the vengeance which she has sworn her mother and her love for Manrique. The verse form of the drama is worthy of note.
Pasó más tiempo, y Nieves, en cuanto aprendió a escribir, cumplió su palabra. En una carta escrita con reglero, letra muy desigual y peor ortografía, puso a Nacho para pelar: «No te esquiribiré má le dijo entre otras cosas , si tú no canveas de modo... Aver. Te pasas de fino, higo, y tó te sale pringoso de puro arrope que lechas... Aver.
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