biography
| name: |
Hurtado y Valhondo, Antonio
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pronunciation:
[oortahthoh ee val
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–78)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Cáceres, W Spain. He was civil governor of Albacete (from 1859) then, successively, of Jaén, Valladolid, Cádiz, Valencia, and finally Barcelona, where his courage during an outbreak of cholera in 1865 earned him great respect. He began to compose plays when he was very young, and La conquista de Cáceres (1842) was his second success in his home town. He left for Madrid the same year, turning to journalism and politics. El romancero de Hernán Cortés (1847), a collection of 29 ballads in the manner of the Duque de Rivas, was followed by El romancero de la princesa (1852), and Madrid dramático (1876), on real and imaginary episodes from the life of Lope de Vega and other playwrights of the Golden Age. Hurtado wrote a number of plays in collaboration with Núñez de Arce, including El laurel de la zubia (1865), Herir en la sombra (1866), and La jota aragonesa (1866). His best historical play was Sueños y realidades (1866). Twice widowed, he resorted to spiritualism in his later years, one result being the play El vals de Venzano (1872), a failure with the public, who were equally unappreciative of his costumbrista novels. |
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