biography
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Monteser, Francisco Antonio de
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pronunciation:
[montaysay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1602–68)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Alameda, Sevilla, SW Spain. From 1620 he lived in Madrid, moved in theatrical circles, and secretly married the actress Manuela de Escamilla. Though best remembered as a writer of shorter bailes and entremeses (such as La hidalga against snobbery and Los locos against vanity), he made his name with a burlesque version of Lope de Vega's great tragedy, El caballero de Olmedo. He followed this with a burlesque Restauración de España in collaboration with Antonio de Solís and Diego de Silva. The same writers produced a parody of Belmonte Bermúdez's La renegada de Sevilla. A witty man of violent temper, he was responsible for some of the finest epigrams in the Duque de Frias' Deleite de la discreción y fácil escuela de la agudeza (1743). He was murdered by a servant of the Portuguese ambassador to Madrid. |
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