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100 1 _aEchegaray, José,
_d1832-1916
245 1 0 _aO locura o santidad
246 1 _aÓ locura ó santidad : Drama en tres actos y en prosa
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-04
508 _aProduced by Ramón Pajares Box. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)
520 _a"O locura o santidad : Drama en tres actos y en prosa" by José Echegaray is a drama written in the late 19th century. Set in Madrid, it follows Don Lorenzo de Avendaño, a rigorously principled intellectual, whose daughter Inés loves Eduardo, son of the Duchess of Almonte. When the dying nurse Juana reveals that Lorenzo’s name and fortune are not truly his, he must choose between proclaiming a devastating truth or safeguarding his child’s happiness. The play tests honor, identity, and parental love to ask whether uncompromising virtue is sanctity—or madness. The opening of the play unfolds in Don Lorenzo’s study: after meditating on Don Quixote, he learns from Dr. Tomás that Inés’s fragile health hinges on a quick marriage to Eduardo, and he resolves to appeal to the Duchess. Inés rejoices, but the arrival of Juana brings a letter confessing that Lorenzo is not the biological son of his supposed parents and that his wealth is illegitimate; Juana, near death, reveals herself as his true mother. Overwhelmed, Lorenzo rejects the Duchess’s proposal, and Inés collapses. At the start of Act II, Eduardo presses his mother to consent and to hush the scandal while quietly restoring the fortune, Ángela urges silence for Inés’s sake, and Lorenzo—torn between duty and love—insists on declaring the whole truth even if it ruins them. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMadrid: Imprenta de José M. Ducazcal, 1877
653 _aSpanish drama -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/olocuraosantidad15211eche
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76631
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