Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau

He was a diplomat who never left the theatre. An actor’s son, zarzuelas from thirteen, Madrid comedies, then the consular posts — Greece, France, China — and dozens of plays for a public that wanted a tune and a sting. El anacronópete is the flying box he built when the stage would not take it. The iron ark is what posterity kept. He had already filled the house without it.