The Cradle Song (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gregorio Martínez Sierra, María de la O Lejárraga García
- First Published: 1917
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragi-comedy
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Spain
- Principal Characters: SISTER JOANNA OF THE CROSS, TERESA, THE PRIORESS, THE VICARESS, THE MISTRESS OF NOVICES, SISTER MARCELLA, SISTER MARIA JESUS, SISTER SAGRARIO, SISTER INEZ, SISTER TORNERA, THE DOCTOR, ANTONIO
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, 1910’s, Feminism, Orphans or orphanages, Spain or Spanish people, Convents or nunneries, Nuns, Religious life
- Locales: Spain
Critique:
G. Martínez Sierra served an apprenticeship in the theater as an actor under Jacinto Benavente, a prominent Spanish playwright, ten years before he wrote any plays of his own. Though not his first written play, THE CRADLE SONG, CANCION DE CUNA in the original, was his first definite success in Madrid in 1911, in New York in 1921, in London in 1926, and again in New York in 1927, when Eva Le Gallienne brought it to her Civic Repertory Theater. Since that time it has been considered a success wherever it has been presented. Martínez Sierra’s wife,...
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