Pedro Muñoz Seca

Dramaturgo español. Practicó la abogacía y fue profesor particular, pero su verdadero oficio fue el de autor teatral. Máximo representante del teatro humorístico de principios del siglo XX, sus obras gozan aún de una gran popularidad. Su habilidad para versificar y para los juegos de palabras, junto a la distorsión grotesca de la realidad que presentaba en sus piezas, crearon el llamado "astracán", una variante del género chico.

Aunque por su falta de autocrítica es considerado un autor menor, y a pesar de que sus obras halagaron en exceso a los sectores conservadores, lo cierto es que su teatro cosechó un éxito popular rotundo, hasta el punto que se hizo costumbre aprender de memoria fragmentos de sus estrenos, especialmente de La venganza

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