biography
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Rey de Artieda, Andrés
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pronunciation:
[ray thay ah(r)ti<
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| male
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| lived:
| (1549–1613)
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| biography:
| Playwright and poet, born in Valencia, E Spain. A professional soldier, who was wounded at Lepanto, he was known as Centinela to fellow-members of the Academia de los Nocturnos. His four-act tragedy Los amantes (1581) is the first Spanish play on the theme of the amantes de Teruel. It is also the first serious portrayal of tragic love on the Spanish stage, concentrating on the universality of the experience rather than on the biographical circumstances. Three other plays, no longer extant, have also been ascribed to him: Los encantos de Merlín, El príncipe vicioso, and Amadís de Gaula. His poetry was first published in the miscellany Discursos, epístolas y epígramas de Artemidoro (1605), in which he satirizes the rising star, Lope de Vega, by whom he was to be eclipsed. The six satirical epístolas include one against sportsmen, and another in ironic defence of the manners of the time. His sonnets are the best of the Poesías reprinted in Vols 25 and 42 of the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles. |
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