Más vale maña que fuerza / Proverbio en un acto; with notes, exercises, and vocabulary

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New-World Spanish Series
With notes, exercises, and vocabulary by Carlos Everett Conant, Ph.D.
Professor of Modern Languages University of Chattanooga
Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York WORLD BOOK COMPANY 1918
WORLD BOOK COMPANY Established, 1905, by CASPAR W. HODGSON
Publishers of New-World Spanish Series, which includes Hall's All Spanish Method, Hall's Poco a poco, Phipp's Páginas sudamericanas, Uribe's Por tierras mejicanas, Allen's Fábulas y cuentos, Martínez Sierra's Teatro de ensueño, Benavente's El príncipe que todo lo aprendió en los libros, Benavente's Los intereses creados, Tamayo y Baus's Más vale maña que fuerza.
1918
No apology need be offered for the introduction to American schools of another selection from the works of so eminent a dramatist as Manuel Tamayo y Baus (1829-1898).
The proverbio here presented, while one of his less pretentious works, was produced when Tamayo was at the prime of his dramatic power and popularity, and well exemplifies his consummate skill in the teaching of a moral lesson by the ingenious and artistic handling of a situation chosen from the commonplaces of everyday life.
Más vale maña que fuerza was first presented at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, November 26, 1866, less than six months before the initial appearance on the same stage, May 4, 1867, of the author's masterpiece, Un drama nuevo .