Carlos Arniches

Carlos Arniches (1866–1943) was a Spanish playwright. His work, drawing on the traditions of the género chico, the zarzuela and the grotesque, came to dominate the Spanish comic theatre in the early twentieth century.

Arniches was complimented in a 1935 interview by Federico García Lorca, often a scathing critic of Spanish theatre in the 1920s and 1930s, as 'more of a poet than almost any of those who are writing theatre in verse at the moment'^[1].

Following the consolidation of the Franco regime after the Spanish Civil War, the social dramas of Carlos Arniches were among the relatively non-controversial plays allowed by the new government.^[2]

References

^ 'Federico García Lorca y el teatro de hoy', interview with Nicolás González Deleito, in García Lorca, Federico, Obras Completas III: Prosa, ed. by Miguel García-Posada (Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores/Galaxia Gutenberg, 1997)
^ Vilches de Frutos, M.F. "Theatre". in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. E.J. Rodgers, ed. 1999. p 513.

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Name	Arniches, Carlos
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Date of birth	1866
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Date of death	1943
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