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Florencio Sánchez

(1875-1910)

Uruguayan journalist and dramatist born in Montevideo on January 17, 1875. He died on November 7, 1910

Stage Works

1. Inner Doors (Puertas adentro) 1897
2. Decent Folk (La gente honesta) 1902
3. The Newspaper Boy (Canillita) 1902
4. My Son the Lawyer (M'hijo el dotor) 1903
5. The Immigrant Girl (La gringa) 1904
6. The Dead (Los muertos) 1905
7. Down the Gully (Barranca abajo) 1905
8. The Family Circle (En familia) 1905
9. Our Children (Nuestros hijos) 1907
10. The Rights of Health (Los derechos de la salud) 1907
11. Chief Pichuleo (El cacique Pichuleo) - Music by Francisco Payá 1906

Criticism:

• R. T. House, "Florencio Sánchez, a Great Uruguayan Dramatist," Poet Lore, Summer 1923;
• W. K. Jones, "The Gringo Theme in River Plate Drama," in Hispania, no. 25, pp. 326-332, 1942;

also in Boletin de Estudios de Teatro, Buenos Aires, Oct. 1943, and in Revista Nacional del Uruguay, no. 7, pp. 75 ff; May, 1944.