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GUILLEN DE See also:CASTRO Y BELLVIS (1569-1631) , See also:Spanish dramatist, was a Valencian by See also:birth, and See also:early enjoyed a reputation as a See also:man of letters . In 1591 he became a member of a See also:local See also:literary See also:academy called the Nocturnes . At one See also:time a See also:captain of the See also:coast-guard, at another the protege of Benavente, See also:viceroy of See also:Naples, who appointed him See also:governor of Scigliano, patronized by See also:Osuna and See also:Olivares, See also:Castro was nominated a See also:knight of the See also:order of See also:Santiago in 1623 . He settled at See also:Madrid in 1626, and died there on the 28th of See also:July 1631 in such poverty that his funeral expenses were defrayed by charity . He probably made the acquaintance of Lope de See also:Vega at the festivals (1620-1622) held to commemorate the See also:beatification and See also:canonization of St Isidore, the See also:patron See also:saint of Madrid . On the latter occasion Castro's octavas were awarded the first See also:prize . Lope de Vega dedicated to him a celebrated See also:play entitled See also:Las Almenas discovered by Dr M . Treub (see Annal . Jardin Botan.See also:Buitenzorg, x . 1891), and is associated with a See also:peculiar development of the ovule, and an increased number and peculiar See also:form of the embryo-sacs (nacrospores) . Treub proposed to See also:separate See also:Casuarina as a distinct See also:group of See also:Angiosperms, and suggested the following arrangement: de See also:Toro (1619), and when Castro's Comedias were published in 1618-021 he dedicated the first See also:volume to Lope de Vega's daughter . The See also:drama that has made Castro's reputation is Las Mocedades del See also:Cid (1599?), to the first See also:part of which See also:Corneille was largely indebted for the materials of his tragedy . The two parts of this play, like all those by Castro, have the genuine See also:ring of the old romances; and, from their intense See also:nationality, no less than for their See also:primitive See also:poetry and flowing versification, were among the most popular pieces of their See also:day . Castro's Fuerza de la costumbre is the source of Love's Care, a play ascribed to See also:Fletcher . He is also the reputed author of El Prodigio de los Mantes, from which See also:Calderon derived El Magico prodigioso . Las Mocedades del Cid (See also:Toulouse, 189o) and Ingratitud de amor (See also:Philadelphia, 1899) have been well edited by E . Merim6e and H . A . Rennert respectively . |
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