by Pedro Muñoz Seca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408054450
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«La venganza de Don Mendo» is the theatrical comedy by Pedro Muñoz Seca, published by Planeta in paperback (182 pages, in Spanish).
Set in medieval Spain, the play presents Don Mendo, a hidalgo madly in love with Magdalena, a wicked and fickle lady who accuses him of theft and has him imprisoned. After escaping his execution, Don Mendo drags an insatiable thirst for revenge and an ill-fated destiny: all women fall in love with him.
Premiered in 1918 at the Teatro de la Comedia in Madrid, the play belongs to the astracán, a comic genre created by Pedro Muñoz Seca, and is divided into four acts.
It is a work for readers of classic Spanish theatre and parodic humour with wordplay.
Pedro Muñoz Seca was a Spanish comic playwright. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his era. He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both sainetes and longer plays, often in collaboration with Pedro Pérez Fernández or Enrique García Álvarez. His most ambitious and best known play is La venganza de Don Mendo ; other major works include La barba de Carrillo and Pepe Conde (1920).
