gloomy and miserable vision of social ills. According to Francisco Ruiz Ramón in (, 1995), "the basic assumptions of this theater are those of a naive naturalistic realism". In the thirties their art was used in the cinema, creating several scripts for the films of the mythical Estrellita Castro. They did not contribute any substantial technical or structural novelty, but they refined Andalusianism in the same way that Carlos Arniches did. In Madrid, However, they never went further indepth with their social ideas, which stops at tenderness and melodramatics. In short, they are bourgeois comedies that offer an idealized and friendly vision of Andalusia that does not worry the average viewer; the joy of living silences any hint of dramatic conflict. It was this joie de vivre that saved the theater of the Quintero brothers from critics such as Ramón Pérez de Ayala, José Martínez Ruiz and Luis Cernuda. Their Complete Works were published in Madrid: , 1918-1947, in forty-two volumes. Bibliography Javier Huerta, Emilio Peral, Héctor Urzaiz, Teatro español de la A a la Z. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 2005. External links 1871 births 1938 deaths 1873 births 1944 deaths People from Utrera 19th-century Spanish writers 19th-century male writers 20th-century Spanish writers 20th-century Spanish male writers Members of the Royal Spanish Academy