by Pedro Muñoz Seca · Ediciones Espuela de Plata · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417146283
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La venganza de don Mendo by Pedro Muñoz Seca is one of the most important and popular texts in the history of Spanish theater. Its exceptionality lies in its extraordinary craftsmanship as a dramatic parody of the Spanish tradition. A wild and absurd story of love and revenge that brilliantly synthesizes the burlesque practice that would follow as a 'jovial shadow to every literary revolution,' from Calderonian honor and cloak-and-dagger comedy to the dusty modernist neo-historicism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A true classic of humor that, one hundred years after its successful premiere, still manages to make the audience laugh.
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).
