Project Gutenberg 2025-08-04 Public domain in the USA. 164 Echegaray, José 1832 1916 Eizaguirre, José Echegaray y Hayaseca, Jorge Echegaray, Jose O locura o santidad : $b Drama en tres actos y en prosa Ó locura ó santidad : Drama en tres actos y en prosa $aMadrid :$bImprenta de José M. Ducazcal, $c1877. Produced by Ramón Pajares Box. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) "O locura o santidad : Drama en tres actos y en prosa" by José Echegaray is a drama written in the late 19th century. Set in Madrid, it follows Don Lorenzo de Avendaño, a rigorously principled intellectual, whose daughter Inés loves Eduardo, son of the Duchess of Almonte. When the dying nurse Juana reveals that Lorenzo’s name and fortune are not truly his, he must choose between proclaiming a devastating truth or safeguarding his child’s happiness. The play tests honor, identity, and parental love to ask whether uncompromising virtue is sanctity—or madness. The opening of the play unfolds in Don Lorenzo’s study: after meditating on Don Quixote, he learns from Dr. Tomás that Inés’s fragile health hinges on a quick marriage to Eduardo, and he resolves to appeal to the Duchess. Inés rejoices, but the arrival of Juana brings a letter confessing that Lorenzo is not the biological son of his supposed parents and that his wealth is illegitimate; Juana, near death, reveals herself as his true mother. Overwhelmed, Lorenzo rejects the Duchess’s proposal, and Inés collapses. At the start of Act II, Eduardo presses his mother to consent and to hush the scandal while quietly restoring the fortune, Ángela urges silence for Inés’s sake, and Lorenzo—torn between duty and love—insists on declaring the whole truth even if it ruins them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/olocuraosantidad15211eche 20250720111639echegaray 1877 ES Reading ease score: 69.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. es Spanish drama -- 19th century PQ Text Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 228059 2025-09-30T08:32:06.049979 text/html 203172 2025-08-04T15:01:05 text/html 197945 2025-09-30T08:32:12.586371 application/epub+zip 205158 2025-09-30T08:32:07.519395 application/epub+zip 167512 2025-09-30T08:32:06.790436 application/epub+zip 305752 2025-09-30T08:32:15.777367 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 342581 2025-09-30T08:32:11.834426 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 165782 2025-09-30T08:32:05.100953 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 145873 2025-08-04T15:01:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15901 2025-09-30T08:32:15.933400 application/rdf+xml 10143 2025-09-30T08:32:06.990409 image/jpeg 2610 2025-09-30T08:32:06.889406 image/jpeg 191016 2025-09-30T08:32:06.068958 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia