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Also Known As Gabriel Téllez
Born March 9, 1584? • Madrid • Spain
Died March 12, 1648 • Soria • Spain
Notable Works “Antona García” • “Cigarrales de Toledo” • “Don Gil de las calzas verdes” • “El Burlador de Sevilla” • “El vergonzoso en palacio” • “Historia general de la orden de la Merced” • “La venganza de Tamar” • “Prudence in Woman” • “The Doubted Damned”
Movement / Style Golden Age
Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez
Spanish dramatist
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish author
Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega
Spanish author
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Spanish writer
Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla
Spanish dramatist
Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
Spanish writer
Vicente García de la Huerta
Spanish writer
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O’Neill
American dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Gil Vicente
Portuguese dramatist
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Philip Massinger.
Philip Massinger
English playwright