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The Mexican Background of Alarcón

(Printed from Bulletin Hispanique page proof, dated May 27, 1940)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Dorothy Schons*
Affiliation:
University of Texas

Extract

It is generally conceded that what differentiates the best work of Alarcón from that of his contemporaries in Spain is the serious moral purpose and the very practical code of morality that he develops. His best plays are also marked by realism of plot and characterization. They are, moreover, remarkably clean and free from objectionable elements. This is the spirit of his best plays and this is the spirit, too, of sixteenth-century Mexico as he knew it.

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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1942

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