...sts unsuccessfully opposed the accessicn of the new Spanish governor and were led to execution. Plays on this and kindred subjects found eager audiences from about 1840 on to the Civil War. In 1836 Charles Gayarre had published his , which was widely read and which led the imaginations of many back to the past. A. Lussan based his play, (1839), directly upon the account of the Revolution which Gayarre had s...