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Echegaray (Eizaguirre), José

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Echegaray [Eizaguirre], José Eizaguirre (1832–1916), Spanish dramatist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. His plays retain the verse-form and much of the imagery of the Romantics, but deal mainly with social problems, and though enthusiastically received caused fierce controversy. They had a great influence not only in Spain but on the European theatre generally. The best-known are O locura o santidad (Madman or Saint, 1877), El loco Dios (The Divine Madman, 1900), El hijo de Don Juan (The Son of Don Juan, 1892), a study of inherited disease which owes something to Ibsen's Ghosts, and, most important, El gran Galeote (1881), produced in England as Calumny and in the United States as The World and His Wife, in which a woman wrongfully accused of being a poet's mistress finally becomes so.

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José Echegaray

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José Echegaray , 1832–1916, Spanish dramatist, mathematician, physicist, economist, and politician. He taught science, practiced engineering, and devoted his later life to economics and politics, holding several cabinet posts. From 1874 to 1905, Echegaray wrote 68 plays, becoming the leading Spanish playwright of his day. He shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with Frédéric Mistral. Among his best-known works are O locura o santidad (1876, tr. Folly or Saintliness, 1895) and El gran Galeoto (1881, tr. The Great Galeoto, 1895). Echegaray's early plays were chiefly romantic; as the realistic problem play came into vogue, however, he adapted his work to the prevailing style, and his melodramatic theater became satiric and sensational in tone.

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