biography
| name: |
Linares Rivas, Manuel
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pronunciation:
[linahres reevas]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1938)
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| biography:
| Judge, member of the Cortes, senator, and playwright, born in Santiago de Compostela, NW Spain. Though he was interested in the género chico, he is best known for his middle-class comedies of manners, always moralistic, which were often influenced by Benavente. His best plays are generally acknowledged to be El abolengo (1904); the political satire El ídolo (1906); the didactic La fuerza del mal (1914); his plays on the contemporary need for divorce Aire de fuera (1903); and the powerful La garra (1914). He satirizes the aristocracy in La estirpe de Júpiter (1904). His fable El caballero Lobo (1910) sees the final victory of the lamb, symbolizing feminine gentleness. |
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