Miguel Mihura
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Miguel Mihura
(1905–77) Spanish playwright, director, and humorist. His first and most acclaimed play, Three Top Hats, was written in 1932 but not staged until 1952, initiating a career of almost two decades. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, he founded the popular satirical magazine La Cordoniz, which thrived in spite of censorship restrictions. Sublime Decision (1955) and The Fair Dorothea (1963) rank with the best serio-comic plays of their time and illustrate his gift for brilliant, near absurdist dialogue. In Carlota (1954), one of his several crime plays, he anticipates postmodernism by inverting the conventions of the murder mystery genre and denying his audience a definitive ending. He directed brisk and stylish productions of many of his own plays in Madrid's leading commercial venues.
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Miguel Mihura Santos (21 July 1905, Madrid – 27 October 1977) was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa (1932), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre.
Miguel Mihura was born in Madrid in 1905. His father was an actor and theatrical producer. When he was in his twenties, he wrote his best known comedy, Tres sombreros de copa, but its humour was not appreciated by the conservative pre-war Spanish society. Tres sombreros de copa was not staged until 1952, achieving a great success.
Mihura also wrote several screenplays in Spanish films during the Francoism. Most of them were cut by the censors and some do not exist. One of his greatest contributions was in Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953).
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