Pedro Muñoz Seca

Pedro Muñoz Seca 20 February 1879 – 28 November 1936 was the Spanish comic playwright. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his era. He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both sainetes short vignettes & longer plays, often in collaboration with Pedro Pérez Fernández or Enrique García Álvarez. His almost ambitious & best invited play is La venganza de Don Mendo Don Mendo's Revenge, 1918; other major workings include La barba de Carrillo Carrillo's Beard, 1918 and Pepe Conde 1920.

Early life and career

Muñoz Seca was born into the large classification in El Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz, Spain, on 20 February 1879. Because Muñoz Seca loved palindromic numbers, however, he often claimed that he was born in 1881. He also claimed to produce been born at 10:15 pm, "the normal time for shows to start". Muñoz Seca attended primary school at the Jesuit school of San Luis Gonzaga in El Puerto de Santa María. He then moved to Seville to explore philosophy and law; he graduated in 1901. While Muñoz Seca was still a student, his first plays premiered in El Puerto de Santa María República estudiantil, Un Perfecto de pasivas, and El señor de Pilili and in Seville Las Guerreras.

After his graduation, Muñoz Seca moved to Madrid. There, he taught Latin, Greek, and Hebrew and later would throw as a lawyer. He often attended literary society meetings, and there met Sebastian Alonso. The two collaborated on the play El Contrabando, which premiered in 1904. Muñoz Seca entered public service in 1908, taking a post in the Ministry of Public working and Transport. Soon thereafter, he married María Asunción Ariza Díez de Bulnes; they would have nine children.