[2] He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both sainetes (short vignettes) and longer plays, often in collaboration with Pedro Pérez Fernández or Enrique García Álvarez.

[4] Muñoz Seca was born into a large family in El Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz, Spain, on 20 February 1879.

[3] He was the inventor of a new genre of comic theatre, the astracanada, the most celebrated example of which is La venganza de Don Mendo, a satire of the romances popular in Spain at the turn of the century.

[1] After the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, Muñoz Seca was at the height of his career, though his dramatic output slowed.

Muñoz Seca was a royalist and friend of Alfonso XIII, and his plays La oca (1931) and Jabalí (1932) sharply criticized the Second Republic.

[19] The foundation maintains a small museum devoted to the author in his former family home in El Puerto de Santa Maria.