El marqués de Bradomín. Coloquios románticos (The Marquis of Bradomin. Romantic meetings), is a

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by the Spanish writer

Ramón del Valle-Inclán Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña (born in Vilanova de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, on October 28, 1866, and died in Santiago de Compostela on January 5, 1936) was a Spanish dramatist, novelist, and member of the Spanish Generation o ...

. It was first performed in 1906. The play was a partial adaptation by the author of his own

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''Sonata otoño'', which had appeared five years earlier, and is about the adventures of the

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Marquis of Bradomin, an

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with political sympathies for the

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. ''El Marques de Bradomín'' was staged at the Teatro de la Princesa in

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on January 25, 1906. Among the actors featured were Francisco Ortega García and Matilde Moreno, as well as Josefina Blanco who later became the author's wife.

References

''La escena moderna: manifiestos y textos sobre teatro de la época de vanguardias''. José A. Sánchez. Page 437
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