Nationality Spanish Role Writer Books The cradle song | Name Gregorio Sierra Spouse Maria Lejarraga (m. 1899) Libretti Margot | |
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Born 6 May 1881 ( 1881-05-06 ) Madrid, Spain Occupation Writer, poet, dramatist, theatre director Died October 1, 1947, Community of Madrid, Spain Movies Carlos Saura Dance Tri, The Trial of Mary Dugan, Los hombres las prefier, Cancion de cuna, Lullaby Similar People Maria Lejarraga, Manuel de Falla, Joaquin Turina, Santiago Rusinol, Benito Perojo | ||
The cradle song by gregorio martinez sierra
Gregorio Martinez Sierra (6 May 1881 – 1 October 1947) was a Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, and theatre director, a key figure in the revival of the Spanish theatrical avant-garde in the early twentieth century.
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- The cradle song by gregorio martinez sierra
- Cradle Song Contemporary Dramatic Monologue PROJECTS
- Work as a poet and playwright
- Work as a publisher and director
- References
'Cradle Song' -- Contemporary Dramatic Monologue | PROJECTS
Work as a poet and playwright
Martinez Sierra's literary career began at the age of 17 with the publication of El poema del trabajo ('The Poem of Work', 1898), a volume of poetry in the modernist style. His subsequent books of poetry included Dialogos fantasticos ('Fantastic Dialogues', 1899), Flores de escarcha ('Frost Flowers', 1900) and La casa de primavera ('The House of Spring', 1907).
As a playwright, Martinez Sierra was one of the few progressive dramatists whose productions achieved any measure of commercial success at the time of their composition. His major works include La sombra del padre ('Shadow of the Father', 1909), Primavera en otono ('Spring in Autumn', 1911), Solo para mujeres ('For Women Only', 1913), Mama ('Mama', 1913) and El reino de Dios ('The Kingdom of God', 1916). Cancion de cuna ('Cradle Song', 1911), which has been called his "masterpiece", was popular across the Spanish-speaking world, and an English-language adaptation transferred to Broadway in 1927. Several of Martinez Sierra's plays were adapted into films, including Cancion de cuna (as Cradle Song, dir. Mitchell Leisen, 1933).
The deft handling of female characters in Martinez Sierra's works has been attributed to the collaboration of his wife, the writer Maria Lejarraga. Since the publication of her memoir Gregorio y yo ('Gregorio and I', 1953), her authorship of many of his plays has been increasingly recognised by scholars.
Work as a publisher and director
Martinez Sierra's influence was largely as a publisher and director. Through his publishing house, Renacimiento ('Rebirth'), he translated the work of William Shakespeare, Maurice Maeterlinck and Santiago Rusinol, and introduced the work of European playwrights including George Bernard Shaw and Luigi Pirandello to Spain.
In 1917 he was appointed Director of Madrid's Teatro Eslava and remained there until 1925, transforming the venue into Spain's first Art Theatre. Amongst a series of Spanish and foreign playwrights whose work he produced "in a new, forward-looking style", it was at Martinez Sierra's invitation that Federico Garcia Lorca created and staged, at the Eslava, his first play, El maleficio de la mariposa ('The Curse of the Butterfly'), in 1920.