Excerpt from Plays by Jacinto Benavente: Translated From the Spanish With an Introduction Although in no sense its promoter, Benavente has been the most stimulating and compelling figure in this latter-dav renaissance. By a coincidence, perhaps, his evolution has kept pace strictly with the successive phases of its develop ment. His first play, Thy Brother's House, El nido ajeno, was acted in 1894, and failed to attract unusual attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.