Jacinto Benavente

Plays (Volume 2) Jacinto Benavente

Publisher Marketing: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PRINCESS BEBE SCENES FROM MODERN LIFE ARRANGED IN FOUR ACTS Fikst Presented By The Compa$(a Guerrebo-mendoza At The Teatho Espanol, Madrid, On The Evening or The Thirty-first Of March, 1909 CHARACTERS APPEARING IN THE FIRST ACT The Emperor Michael Alexander or Suatia Prince Stephen Prince Maurice (aged fifteen) Prince Alex (aged eight) The Chancellor Hekh Stirger, The Tutor Princess Helena Princess Margaret (aged fourteen) Baroness Esther Von Rosenberg Countess Adelaide Von Rosenkranz Also Attendants at the Imperial Palace THE FIRST ACT An apartment in the Imperial Suite of the Palace of Suavia. At the rear, a garden covered with snow. Princess Margaret, Prince Maurice, Prince Alex, and the Countess Von Rosenkranz surround the Tutor, who expounds the daily history lesson. Tutor. However, every day could not be glorious in the history of the Kingdom of Suavia. Michael VIII was a prudent king, a model of public and private virtues. His wife, Edvigia, was a model queen, as all the queens of Suavia have been since the beginning of the seventeenth century, although, as we have already seen, previous to the seventeenth, particularly during the fourteenth and fifteenth, there may have been an occasional one of unhappy memory. Countess. Pardon, Herr Stirger, but Queen Theodo- linda, to whom you refer, has been gravely disparaged in my opinion through being called the Messalina of Suavia. Have you read the recent monograph of Herr Tomberg, published in the Journal of Historical Sciences? It would appear that the name of Theodolinda had been completely vindicated. Herr Tomberg proves that the unfortunate eccentricities of the queen did not reflect so much upon herself as upon her husband, who, it seems, condoned them. Tutor. Very possibly. May we p... Contributor Bio:  Benavente, Jacinto Jacinto Benavente y Mart nez naci en Madrid, el 12 de agosto de 1866 y falleci en Madrid, el 14 de julio de 1954. Ejerci de dramaturgo, director, guionista y productor de cine espa ol. Fund el Teatro Art stico, donde particip Ram n del Valle Incl n. En 1922 recibi el Premio Nobel de Literatura por perseverar acertadamente en la tradici n del teatro espa ol.