Background

Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla was born on October 4, 1607 at Toledo, Spain.

Education

He studied at the University of Toledo and University of Salamanca.

Career

His plays were published in 1640-45; the best of his dramatic compositions, Del Rey abajo Ninguno, is not included in the collection and was printed separately under the title of Garcia del Castanar. Of his other pieces, apart from their intrinsic merit, an international interest attaches to No hay padre siendo rey, which was borrowed by Rotrou for his Venceslas; to Donde hay agravios no hay zelos and the Amo criado, which were imitated by Scarron in his Jodelet Soufflete and Maitre Valet; to Entre Bobos anda el juego, the source of Thomas Corneille's Don Bertrand de Cigarral, as well as of Scarron's Don Japhel d'Armenie; to Obligados у ofendidos, from which are derived Les Genereux Ennemis by Boisrobert, Les Illustres Ennemis by Thomas Corneille, and Scarron's Ecolier de Salamanque; and to La traicidn busca el castigo, upon which are based Vanbrugh's False Friend and Le Sage's Traitre puni. Rojas Zorrilla's power of conveying a tragic impression is manifest in Garcia del Castanar; his chief defect is his persistent preciosity of diction.

Achievements

• His plays have a sense of life and animation that is lacking in other drama influenced by Calderón.
  
  He became a knight of Santiago in 1644.

Works

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  • La esmeralda del amor (Spanish Edition)

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  • Donde hay agravios no hay celos, y amo criado (Spanish Edition)

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  • Santa Isabel, Reina de Portugal (Spanish Edition)

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  • El desafío de Carlos Quinto (Spanish Edition)

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  • Progne y Filomena (Spanish Edition)

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  • Nuestra Señora de Atocha (Spanish Edition)

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  • Altas Habilidades (Portuguese Edition)

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  • Comedias Escogidas de Don Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) (Spanish Edition)

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