biography
pronunciation:
[kanyeethares]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1676–1750)
|
| biography:
| Playwright, born in Madrid, Spain. Like Antonio de Zamora, he belonged to the Calderonian school. Appointed to the household of the Duque de Osuna, at the age of 14 he composed his first comedia entitled Las cuentas del Gran Capitán, already showing a reaction to the contemporary Neoclassical taste that was finally to dominate Spanish drama throughout the 18th-c and to overshadow his own work. His popular plays were performed in Madrid (1704–42), particularly the comedias de figurón, such as the outstanding satire on Salamanca university life, El dómine Lucas, which improves on the Lopean original. Others are the historically-based El picarillo en España, Señor de la Gran Canaria, with excellent characterization; Abogar por su ofensor, y Barón del Pinel; El honor da entendimiento, y el más bobo sabe más; La más ilustre fregona, from the Cervantine exemplary novel; Por acrisolar su honor, competidor hijo y padre, from a lost original by Lope de Vega; and Yo me entiendo y Dios me entiende. Cañizares wrote También por la voz hay dicha, in imitation of Calderón's El alcaide de sí mismo. He also produced zarzuelas, notably Angélica y Medoro. His Comedias escogidas (2 vols, 1828–33) was the most extensive selection ever made, consisting of 24 plays. |
|
|
