Playwrights From Spain

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"La verde es color primera Del mundo, y en quien consiste Su hermosura, pues se viste De verde la primevera. Es aquel verde ornamento, Pues sin voz y con aliento La vista mas lisonjera Nacen de varios colores. En cuna verde las flores, Que son estrellas del viento.Al fin es color del suelo, Que se marchita y se pierde; Y cuando el suelo de verde Se vista, de azul el cielo. Primavera es su azul velo, Donde son las flores bellas Vivas luces; mira en ellas, Qué trofeos son mayores, Un campo cielo de flores, O un cielo campo de estrellas.Ese es color aparente, Que la vista para objeto Finge; que el cielo en efeto Color ninguno consiente. Con azul fingido miente La hermosura de su esfera: Luego en esa parte espera Ser la tierra preferida, Pues la una es beldad fingida Y otra es pompa verdadera.Confieso, que no es color Lo azul del cielo, y confieso, Que es mucho mejor por eso; Porque, si fuera en rigor Propio, no fuera favor La eleccion; y de aqui infiero, Que, si le eligió primero, Fue, porque lo azul ha sido Aun mejor para fingido, Que otro para verdadero.Lo verde dice esperanza, Que es el mas immenso bien Del amor. Digalo quien Ni la tiene ni la alcanza. Lo azul zelos y mudanza Dice, que es tormento eterno, Sin paz, quietud ni gobierno. Qué importa pues, que el amor Tenga del cielo el color, Si tiene el mal del infierno?Quien con esperanza vive, Poco le debe su dama; Pero quien con zelos ama, En bronce su amor escribe; Luego aquel que se apercibe Á amar zeloso, hace mas, En cuya razon verás, Cuanto alcanzan sus dusvelos; Pues el infierno de zelos No espera favor jamas."

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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"I suppose he had the good luck to be executed, no? I had an hour's chat with him in Buenos Aires. He struck me as a kind of play actor, no? Living up to a certain role. I mean, being a professional Andalusian... But in the case of Lorca, it was very strange because I lived in Andalusia and the Andalusians aren't a bit like that. His were stage Andalusians. Maybe he thought that in Buenos Aires he had to live up to that character, but in Andalusia, people are not like that. In fact, if you are in Andalusia, if you are talking to a man of letters and you speak to him about bullfights, he'll say, 'Oh well, that sort of this pleases people, I suppose, but really the torero works in no danger whatsoever.' Because they are bored by these things, because every writer is bored by the local color in his own country. Well, when I met Lorca, he was being a professional Andalusian... Besides, Lorca wanted to astonish us. He said to me that he was very troubled about a very important figure in the contemporary world. A character in whom he could see all the tragedy of American life. And then he went on in this way until I asked him who was this character and it turned out this character was Mickey Mouse. I suppose he was trying to be clever. And I thought, 'That's the kind of thing you say when you are very, very young and you want to astonish somebody.' But after all, he was a grown man, he had no need, he could have talked in a different way. But when he started in about Mickey Mouse being a symbol of America, there was a friend of mine there and he looked at me and I looked at him and we both walked away because we were too old for that kind of game, no? Even at that time."

- Federico García Lorca

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