biography
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Quiñones de Benavente, Luis
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pronunciation:
[keenyohnes thay b
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1593–1651)
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| biography:
| Priest, friend of Lope de Vega, and writer of entremeses, loas, and jácaras, born in Toledo, C Spain. His popular, satirical short plays fall into the line of development from Lope de Rueda to Rámon de la Cruz. His work has been divided into the realistic and the fantastic, the former being comedias in miniature and the latter his sung entremeses. In 1645 his friend Manuel Antonio Vargas collected a number of his works written in 1630–40, and stated in his preface that Benavente no longer wrote for the stage. A typical entremes of Benavente's is El miserable, which takes from Quevedo's novel El buscón that caricature of avarice Cabra the schoolmaster, and exaggerates his meanness even further in the picture of Don Martín de Peravillo, who scolds his wife for breathing out when she could have used her breath more economically on a lamp. Benavente's entremeses, performed in the intervals between acts of most comedias acted during 1620–50, reminded the audience of their own foibles. |
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