En el panorama teatral de la época que nos ocupa, logró continuado éxito la obra de Pedro Muñoz Seca titulada La venganza de Don Mendo (1918), calificada como "caricatura de tragedia". Nuestra propuesta es poner de manifiesto la existencia de unos elementos dramatúrgicos en la obra del escritor que fueron luego germen de lo que se denominó "humor absurdo" y que cristalizó en el "humor nuevo", peculiarmente español, de la denominada otra generación del 27, la de los humoristas.
In the context of the drama of the period we are dealing with, continuous success was achieved by the play by Pedro Muñoz Seca entitled La venganza de Don Mendo (Don Mendo's revenge), first staged in 1918 and described as "the caricature of a tragedy". Our aim is to stress the presence in Muñoz Seca's work of a number of dramatic elements which may be considered the seeds of what came to be known as absurd humour and was later concretised in the specifically Spanish genre of "humor nuevo" (new humour), as practised by the 'other Generation of "27", that of the humorists.