Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922, was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics. Jacinto Benavente y Martinez Taken from Nobelprize. ... Jacinto Benavente y Martinez Taken from Nobelprize. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes...
JacintoBenavente (1866-1954), the son of a well-known pediatrician, was born in Madrid.
Benavente's plays deal with all strata of life; they are both serious and comic, realistic and fantastic, but it is chiefly as a writer of comedies of manners and of one-act farces that he made his name.
Benavente is best known for such plays as La Gobernadora (1901) [The Governor's Wife], Rosas de otoño (1905) [Autumnal Roses], and particularly Señora ama (1908) [The Lady of the House] and La Malquerida (1913) [The Wrongly Loved], two psychological dramas which take place in a rural atmosphere.
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