biography
| name: |
Bernat y Baldoví, Josep
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pronunciation:
[bernat ee baldovee
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| male
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| lived:
| (1810–64)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Sueca, Valencia, E Spain. After studying law at Valencia University, he became a judge, and a member of the Cortes for Sueca in 1844. His long series of ‘artículos de costumbres’ in El Sueco, El Tabalet, and La Donsagna was well known. His plays, noted for their wry sense of humour and vulgar realism, include El Gafau o El pretendiente labriego and La viuda i l'escolá. His most original contribution to the 19th-c Catalan Renaissance was a series of ‘milacres’ (miracle-plays), reviving a mediaeval tradition of open-air religious performances, celebrating the life and work of San Vicente Ferrer. One of these is El rei moro de Granada (1860), in which the saint converts Aldora, daughter of the Moorish King of Valencia, who curses God and is carried off to Hell by two devils. |
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