Background
De Azevedo was born in Lisbon, likely in the early 17th century, to nobleman João de Azevedo Pereira of Casa Real and his wife Izabel de Oliveira.
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Angela Azevedo
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Career
She spent time in the court of Philip IV of Spain in Madrid as a handmaiden to the king"s wife Elisabeth of Bourbon. She wrote several plays, three of which have survived to the present:
El muerto disimulado (The Feigned Death),
Louisiana Margarita del Tajo que dió nombre a Santarem (Margarita of Tajo Who Gave Her Name to Santarem), and
Dicha y desdicha del juego y devoción de la Virgen (Bliss and Misfortune in the Game and Devotion to the Virgin). All three are written in Spanish and placed in Portugal.
The first has a secular theme, while the remaining two have typically religious themes.
Given her ties to the court, it is thought that her plays may have been staged in the palace. Her biographers note that de Azevedo married sometime before Elisabeth"s death in 1644, but do not record her husband"s name.
