Jacinto Benavente

Jacinto Benavente was born in Madrid in 1866, the son of a well-known paediatrician. His father's death, in 1885, gave him an independence that allowed him to give up law for literature and to travel in France and Russia. His first plays, in the mid-1890s, were comedies of manners about the high society of the Restoration. At the beginning of the twentieth century he established himself as one of the leading Spanish dramatists and wrote more than one hundred and seventy plays in all. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1922 and died in 1954.

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• TheatreThe Bonds of InterestLos intereses creadosJacinto Benavente · 1907LiteraturePublic domain