Theatre
Frutos de la educación
Not translated into English
Felipe Pardo y Aliaga · 1830
Synopsis
In Lima, shortly after independence, don Feliciano, a rigid father born in Spain, has squandered the inheritance of his ward Bernardo, a disreputable young Limeño, and intends to marry him to his daughter Pepita to cover up the matter. Pepita prefers Eduardo, an English merchant, who is supported by her uncle, don Manuel, a man educated in Europe and the voice of reason. But her parents let her grow up in contact with the popular customs of the city, and the zamacueca, which she dances willingly, threatens to compromise everything.
Context
The comedy, in three acts and forty scenes, mostly in romance verse, was first performed in Lima on 6 August 1830. It respects the classical unities, the action taking place within twenty-four hours in a single room, and a prose letter from Bernardo parodies the epistolary style; the forms of address between characters mark social ranks. The priest and writer José Joaquín de Larriva attacked it at once, and the author defended in the press his satire of Lima's manners. In 1982, Enrique Carrión Ordóñez read in it an allegory of the young republic, in which each character would represent a state.
Who it is for
Three acts in Spanish verse, which can be played in a single evening; the servant Perico speaks the Spanish of African slaves.
Prizes and reception
It introduces the model of Moratín's comedy to Peru; Carrión Ordóñez noted in 1982 that no thesis had yet studied it in depth.