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JOSE DE See also:CARIZARES (1676-1750) , See also:Spanish dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 4th of See also:July 1676, entered the See also:army, and retired with the See also:rank of See also:captain in 1702 to See also:act as See also:censor of the Madrid theatres and steward to the See also:duke of See also:Osuna . In his fourteenth See also:year Canizares recast a See also:play by Lope de See also:Vega under the See also:title of See also:Las Cuentas del Gran Capittn, and he speedily became a fashionable playwright . His originality, however, is slight, and El D4mine See also:Lucas, the only one of his pieces that is still read, is an See also:adaptation from Lope de Vega . Canizares produced a version of See also:Racine's I phigenie shortly before 1716, and is to some extent responsible for the destruction of the old Spanish See also:drama . He died on the 4th of See also:September 1750, at Madrid . |
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