Manuel Tamayo y Baus and Schiller
1961; Duke University Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1768574
ISSN1945-8517
Autores Tópico(s)Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
ResumoROM THE LIST of non-German literary figures influenced by Friedrich Schiller the name of the Spanish dramatist, Manuel Tamayo y Baus is too often omitted,' an omission all the more serious because of Tamayo's rank as a writer and the depth of his commitment to the German playwright.2 If any literary apprenticeship deserves the designation of Urerlebnis, Tamayo's fascination with Schiller exhibits the traits one is wont to connect with this term: encounter during the formative years, concrete fruits in the form of literary works, and an increased creative impulse resulting from the contact. Little is known about Tamayo's earliest occupation with Schiller. In a different context but with words wholly applicable to this problem, Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo once complained: Poco sabemos de la vida ... de nuestros mayores ingenios, maxime de los dramaticos.3 Manuel Tamayo y Baus did not begin his relationship with the theater as an imitator of Schiller. His first dramatic feat was a stage adaptation of Genoveva de Brabante, when he surprised his audience by appearing on stage after the premiere, a boy of ten, holding his mother's hand. But this attempt was merely a youthful response to the challenge of his environment (Tamayo was the son of actors). It was not until the end of his adolescence that he returned to the stage with
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