caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
carlos arniches 16 april 1943 madrid , spain alicante , spain spanish 11 october 1866 carlos arniches.jpg carlos arniches
 carlos arniches playwright
carlos arniches

carlos arniches -lrb- 11 october 1866 -- 16 april 1943 -rrb- was a spanish playwright , born in alicante .
his prolific work , drawing on the traditions of the género chico , the zarzuela and the grotesque , came to dominate the spanish comic theatre in the early twentieth century .
after starting his career as a novelist and journalist , arniches turned to theatre in 1888 with the publication of his first play , `` casa editorial '' .
much of his work is set in lower-class madrid and uses colloquial language , song , dance and music .
arniches was complimented in a 1935 interview by federico garcía lorca , often a scathing critic of spanish theatre in the 1920s and 1930s , as ` more of a poet than almost any of those who are writing theatre in verse at the moment ' .
following the consolidation of the franco regime after the spanish civil war , the social dramas of carlos arniches were among the relatively non-controversial plays allowed by the new government .
