Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Jacinto Benavente, (1866-1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. He returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics. References About Jacinto Benavente y Martinez This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.