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100 1 _aBretón de los Herreros, Manuel,
_d1796-1873
245 1 0 _aMuérete ¡y verás...!
250 _aSegunda edición.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-14
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"Muérete ¡y verás...!" by Manuel Bretón de los Herreros is a stage comedy written in the mid-19th century. The play satirizes social hypocrisy, romantic fickleness, and political posturing in Zaragoza during the Carlist conflicts, using a “death” to strip characters of their masks. It centers on Don Pablo, a militia officer believed fallen in battle; Jacinta, his dazzling beloved; Isabel, her modest, secretly devoted sister; Don Matías, an eager rival; Don Froilán, a gloomy egoist; and Don Elías, a penny-wise lender. Expect witty clashes, farcical reversals, and a sharp portrait of a society that praises the dead while failing the living. The opening of the play sets Zaragoza humming as a militia column marches out: Pablo scrambles for a loan from Elías, then exchanges fervent vows with Jacinta while Isabel hides her love in silence and Froilán mutters dire omens. Soon a victory is rumored; a letter from Matías and an official notice mention one officer fallen, and Matías arrives to assert Pablo has died. Jacinta mourns yet swiftly lets Matías court her—claiming Pablo would have wished it—while Isabel, at last speaking, declares her deep, self-denying love and rebukes her sister’s haste. As funeral bells toll across from a lively dance where Jacinta and Matías plot their betrothal and Froilán shirks mourning, Pablo returns incognito, overhears his own praises and their betrayal, and decides to make Froilán recant publicly and to devise a sharper private revenge. The excerpt closes with Elías fretting over his unpaid loan as mourners drift from the church. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMadrid: Imprenta de Yenes, 1840
653 _aComedy plays
653 _aSpanish drama -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/mureteyversc00bret
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77235
999 _c117955
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