Electra and the Progressive Movement in Spain is a play produced at the Theatre Espaf'tol in Madrid written by the famous and profound author and playwright Benito Perez Galdos. The writer is a native of the Canary Islands, has established his name as a literary master in Spain. He is compared to Valera, as they both love fine literature and emotions of life and experiences. He writes mostly about sensible and intricate matters. He became the banner-bearer in a great popular movement.
Electra characterizes the entirety of his literary career, and the audience once noted Electra with Adela de Ubao. In just a few months, over 25,000 copies of Electra were sold, for Spain it was a large number, and the author became an acclaimed hero. Electra is the symbol of development and of uprising against clericalism and Jesuitism. However, the secular authorities of the Church are against the performances of Electra, but Electra does not have a word to be offensive against the law.
Benito Perez Galdos was born on May 10, 1843, he was a Spanish realist author. A few of the officials regarded him as second to Cervantes in standing as a Spanish author. He was the primary literary personage in Spain during the 19th century.
He was a versatile writer, and wrote 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales or National Episodes, 23 plays, and the proportionate of 20 volumes of brief stories, journalism and other works. He continues to be well-known in Spain, and is referred as the same with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. In 1950, some of his writings were translated to the English language, but his popularity does not progress that much in the Anglophone world.
His dramas and plays are conferred to be not so famous than his novels, Realidad in 1892 is significant in the history of realism in the Spanish stage.
The Galdos museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, presents a portrait of the author by Joaquin Sorolla.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Electra characterizes the entirety of his literary career, and the audience once noted Electra with Adela de Ubao. In just a few months, over 25,000 copies of Electra were sold, for Spain it was a large number, and the author became an acclaimed hero. Electra is the symbol of development and of uprising against clericalism and Jesuitism. However, the secular authorities of the Church are against the performances of Electra, but Electra does not have a word to be offensive against the law.
Benito Perez Galdos was born on May 10, 1843, he was a Spanish realist author. A few of the officials regarded him as second to Cervantes in standing as a Spanish author. He was the primary literary personage in Spain during the 19th century.
He was a versatile writer, and wrote 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales or National Episodes, 23 plays, and the proportionate of 20 volumes of brief stories, journalism and other works. He continues to be well-known in Spain, and is referred as the same with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. In 1950, some of his writings were translated to the English language, but his popularity does not progress that much in the Anglophone world.
His dramas and plays are conferred to be not so famous than his novels, Realidad in 1892 is significant in the history of realism in the Spanish stage.
The Galdos museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, presents a portrait of the author by Joaquin Sorolla.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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