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ANTONIO COELLO (1610?-1652)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO COELLO (1610?-1652)  ,
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Spanish dramatist and poet, was born at
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Madrid about the beginning of the 17th century . He entered the household of the duke de Albuquerque, and after some years of service in the army received the order of Santiago in 1648 . He was a favourite of Philip IV., who is reported to have collaborated with him; this rumour is not confirmed, but there is ample proof of Coello's collaboration with Calderon, Rojas Zorrilla, Solis and Velez de Guevara, the most distinguished dramatists of the age . The best of his
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original plays, Los Empenos de leis horas, has been wrongly ascribed to Calderon; it was adapted by
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Samuel
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Tuke, under the title of The Adventures of five Hours, and was described by Pepys as
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superior to Othello . It is an excellent example of stagecraft and animated
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dialogue . Coello died on the loth of
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October 1652, shortly after his nomination to a
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post in the household of Philip IV .

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