


Plays (selection: modern editions or plays translated into English)Īntona Garcia, edited by Margaret Wilson. Obras dramaticas completas, edited by Blanca de los Rfos. 1848.Ĭomedias (includes 45 comedias), edited by E. The majority of his plays written before 1625 possibly the author of as many as 300-400. 1632 in Barcelona, Madrid, and Toledo during the 1630s another controversy about his plays and banished again, to Soria, 1640 Prior of the Sofia friary, 1645-47 in Almazan, 1647-48. Career: Entered the Order of Mercy (also known as the Mercedarian Order), 1601: novitiate, then friar: probably in Toledo, 1605-15 in Santo Domingo, Hispaniola (now Dominican Republic, West Indies), 1616-18 based in Madrid, 1621-25 the Council of Castille opposed his playwriting in 1625, was forbidden to write further secular plays, and was banished to the remote friary at Trujillo, where he was prior, 1626-29 official chronicler of the Order, c. Education: Educated at the universities of Alcala and Guadalajara. Born: Gabriel Tellez in Madrid, Spain, in 1580 or 1581(?).
