Adelardo López de Ayala

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Adelardo López de Ayala

Spanish dramatist

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Spanish literature
Post-Romantic drama and poetry
Adelardo López de Ayala pilloried bourgeois vices in El tejado de vidrio (1857; “The Glass Roof”) and Consuelo (1870). The more than 60 plays of José Echegaray y Eizaguirre include both enormously popular melodramas lacking verisimilitude of character, motivation, and situation and serious bourgeois dramas…
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Adelardo López de Ayala pilloried bourgeois vices in El tejado de vidrio (1857; “The Glass Roof”) and Consuelo (1870). The more than 60 plays of José Echegaray y Eizaguirre include both enormously popular melodramas lacking verisimilitude of character, motivation, and situation and serious bourgeois dramas…
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