Más vale maña que fuerza
Tamayo y Baus, Manuel, 1829-1898
Spanish
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MÁS VALE MAÑA QUE FUERZA
_New-World Spanish Series_
MANUEL TAMAYO Y BAUS
MÁS VALE MAÑA QUE FUERZA
PROVERBIO EN UN ACTO
With notes, exercises, and
vocabulary by
Carlos Everett Conant, Ph.D.
Professor of Modern Languages
University of Chattanooga
_Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York_
WORLD BOOK COMPANY
1918
WORLD BOOK COMPANY
Established, 1905, by CASPAR W. HODGSON
YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK
2126 PRAIRIE AVENUE, CHICAGO
Publishers of New-World Spanish Series,
which includes _Hall's_ All Spanish Method,
_Hall's_ Poco a poco, _Phipp's_ Páginas
sudamericanas, _Uribe's_ Por tierras mejicanas,
_Allen's_ Fábulas y cuentos, _Martínez
Sierra's_ Teatro de ensueño, _Benavente's_ El
príncipe que todo lo aprendió en los libros,
_Benavente's_ Los intereses creados, _Tamayo
y Baus's_ Más vale maña que fuerza.
1918
PREFACE
No apology need be offered for the introduction to American schools of
another selection from the works of so eminent a dramatist as Manuel
Tamayo y Baus (1829-1898).
The _proverbio_ here presented, while one of his less pretentious works,
was produced when Tamayo was at the prime of his dramatic power and
popularity, and well exemplifies his consummate skill in the teaching of a
moral lesson by the ingenious and artistic handling of a situation chosen
from the commonplaces of everyday life.
_Más vale maña que fuerza_ was first presented at the Teatro de la
Zarzuela in Madrid, November 26, 1866, less than six months before the
initial appearance on the same stage, May 4, 1867, of the author's
masterpiece, _Un drama nuevo_.
The situation treated in _Más vale maña que fuerza_ was suggested by a
one-act French comedy entitled _La diplomatie du ménage_, by Mme. Caroline
Berton, which was first given at the Théâtre Français, January 6, 1852.
Otherwise, Tamayo's work is entirely original.
With the exception of orthographic changes made in conformity with the
latest rules of the Royal Spanish Academy, the text is that of the fourth
volume of _Obras de D. Manuel Tamayo y Baus_, published by the Sucesores
de Rivadeneyra, Madrid, 1900.
The piece is well adapted for reading in the second year of high school,
or in the latter part of the first year course in college, after
completion of selections in an easy Spanish reader.
C.E.C.
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