Don Francisco de Quevedo: Drama en Cuatro Actos

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Eulogio Florentino Sanz. Don Francisco de Quevedo: Drama en Cuatro Actos

Don Francisco de Quevedo: Drama en Cuatro Actos

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

EULOGIO FLORENTINO SANZ

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

VERSIFICATION

SCHEME OF METERS

DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO

DRAMA EN CUATRO ACTOS

ACTO I

ACTO SEGUNDO

ACTO TERCERO

ACTO CUARTO

Fin del Drama

NOTES

VOCABULARY

FOOTNOTES:

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Eulogio Florentino Sanz

Publicado por Good Press, 2019

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Olivares himself was to blame for the initial appearance in the machinery of the State of only a few vital weaknesses, for at the beginning of his administration many fatal tendencies were already at work. But because he failed to check those tendencies he must ever be the scapegoat. To be sure he signalized his arrival by a few months of rigid economy, but he did not cut deep enough. He soon realized the futility of saving where there was nothing to save. Then, either because he failed to see the source of the evil or because he lacked the constructive ability to attack it, he went to the extreme of lavish expenditure. As the situation grew more and more hopeless he temporized, striving to hide the internal decay beneath a gilded exterior of ostentatious wealth. As he plunged deeper his critics grew bolder, and to silence them his rule became more barbarously arbitrary.

Moreover, he found himself face to face with the great Richelieu at the head of a rich and well-administered France. Under him France was to become organized and to extend her dominions to her natural physical boundaries—at the expense of Spain. Olivares ruled Spain from 1621 until 1643, Richelieu ruled France from 1622 until 1642; it was a life-long duel between the two ministers. Richelieu laid the foundation for the greatness of Louis XIV, while Olivares made inevitable the abject impotence of Spain under Charles II.

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