Excerpt from The Smile of Mona Lisa: A Play in One Act

Three names shine with equal luster, when the Spanish drama of today is considered. They are the names of: - Jose Echegaray, Jacinto Benavente and Perez Galdos. All three dramatists have fertile pens. Some fifty or sixty plays have been published by Echegaray and Benavente and Galdos" work, including his drama and novels, are more numerous. The three authors have European recognition and appreciation - their dramas having appeared in translated editions in Holland, Germany, Italy and other European countries.

Benavente"s early plays, - those appearing from 1893 to about 1903 were generally of contemporaneous life and often dealt with social foibles. He is satirical at times, again gay - rarely serious - but whatever the play, his love of beauty, his brilliant imagery, his worship of art for art"s sake, are manifest. In his later works the serious play - sometimes the tragedy, appear.

In a preface of one of his own works Benavente has given the ideals which guide him in his literary work.

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