Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Manuel Tamayo y building ( born September 15, 1829 in Madrid, † June 20, 1898 Madrid) was a Spanish playwright who was with plays such as Lances de Honor to an outstanding member of the realistic and naturalistic drama in Spanish literature of the 19th century.
Life
Tamayo y construction came from a family that was closely connected with the theater in particular by his mother, the famous actress Joaquina construction. This occurred in 1841 in an inherited from the French adaptation as " Genevieve de Brabant", which had written her son at the age of twelve years. Through the influence of his uncle, the playwright and Antonio Gil y Zárate minister of education, he was an employee in the government and decreed by about financial independence.
1847 published his first published Juana de Arco plays, which was based on The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller, and Una Aventura de Richelieu, which related to La Jeunesse de Richelieu by Alexandre- Vincent Pineux Duval. In Angela (1852 ) he worked Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, where he transferred the plot to Spain and the original scenes took over, but this revised with his words.
His first major success was the construction y Tamayo 1853 Virginia, a dramatic essay in the style of Vittorio Alfieri, which attracted attention particularly because of the ingenuity and the noble language. In 1854, he initially lost his post in the new Liberal government, but he was soon anxious by the Minister Cándido Nocedal, who admired the talent of the young playwright, with another post in the government. Together with Aureliano Fernández- Guerra 1854 he wrote La Ricahembra, a reminiscent of works by Lope de Vega historical drama.
The 1855 published La Locura de Amor stage work about Joan the Mad, passionate, lovelorn daughter of Isabella I of Castile, established his reputation as Spain's leading playwright of his time. While Hija y Madre (1855 ) was a failure, La Bola de Nieve is (1856 ) a remarkable example for its exceptional work style. In 1858 he was elected a member of the Real Academia Española, and later became its permanent secretary.
However, in the following years were his own works in the background, as he increasingly dealt again with the adaptation of numerous French-language stage works. These include La Positivo (1862 ) by Adrien -Augustin -Léon Layas Duc job, that in the Spanish version became a skillful example of stagecraft and contained some element of great value.
In 1863 he wrote after seven years with Lances de Honor for the first time a theater piece. In it, he processed the immorality of dueling and thus came to a heated discussion on this issue in public. This, written in prose work is inspired by a medieval piety that was no longer felt in the Spanish theater since the 17th century. This " rebirth " of an old theme resulted in numerous theater critic Lances de Honor as his best work looked. The Del dicho al hecho subsequent work (1864 ), which was based on Augier La Pierre de touche by Jules Sandeau and Émile, and diplomacy de ménage (1866 ) by Caroline Berton, however, are other examples of adaptations of French plays.
His stage work published 1867 Un drama nuevo, in which he processed William Shakespeare's Hamlet, it also brought a wide attention. As part of the "glorious " revolution of General Juan Prim in 1868 he lost his job as librarian of the San Isidro library. He then revised in No hay que por bien no venga times (1868 ) skillfully Théodore Barrière La Feu au Couvent. In 1870 he published with Los Hombres de bien his last own stage play.
1884 appointed him the Minister Alejandro Pidal y Mon conservative director of the Spanish National Library. During his tenure of office of the new library on the Paseo de Recoletos was completed in 1896 after thirty years of construction, the equally served as a library, museum and archive.
His last years were spent Tamayo y Baus, which also published under the pseudonyms Segundo Blanco, Gil Carmona, Conde de Cabra, Manuel Estébanez, Manuel Martínez Pedrosa and Fulano valley, with the revision of Virginia, the posthumously in Obras (1899 ) appeared.