A Spanish Version of the Authentic Don Juan

Jacinto Grau, born in Barcelona in 1873 and now living in exile in Buenos Aires, is a Spanish dramatist whose fame has been increasing in recent years. His plays have been presented throughout Europe and South America, some of them by such well-known figures as Charles Dullin, Francis de Miomandre, Karel Capek, and Luigi Pirandello. A movement has been initiated in South America to petition the Nobel Committee to award him the prize for literature. In choosing the plots for his dramas, he often has recourse to history, legend, mythology, folklore, and the Bible, as did many of the writers of the Golden Age and the Romantic periods of the Spanish theatre. Unlike them, however, he usually re-evaluates the tales of universal interest and gives a novel interpretation of the story, frequently transforming a traditionally base character (such as Judas) into a noble figure. The plays based on traditional themes are: La

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