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Excerpt from El Si de las Ninas: Comedia en Tres Actos y en Prosa
Then ensued an era of decline, due partly to the disturbed political condition of the country, but chie y to a monopoly of the stage by an utterly inferior class of writers. In the matter of form, even the work of the masters of the golden period is not beyond censure, and only their captivating genius can divert attention from the exterior imperfections of their dramas. How inevitable, therefore, that dramatic production should become wretchedly debased, when given over into the hands of several generations of writers who not only lacked the breath of genius, but carried to an extreme the anterior neglect of the rigorous precepts of classic arti Into such a debased condition the Spanish stage fell in the eighteenth century, and there it remained, despite certain endeavors to regenerate it, until Moratin revived some of its former glory.
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