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Tirso de Molina

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Tir·so de Mo·li·na  (tîrs d m-ln, m-lnä) Pen name of Gabriel Téllez. 1584?-1648.
Spanish playwright whose popular works include The Seducer of Seville (1630), which introduced the character Don Juan.

Tirso de Molina (Spanish) [ˈtirso ðe moˈlina]
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(Biographies / Tirso de Molina (?1571-1648) M, Spanish, THEATRE: dramatist) pen name of Gabriel Téllez. ?1571-1648, Spanish dramatist; author of the first dramatic treatment of the Don Juan legend El Burlador de Sevilla (1630)
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Noun1.Tirso de Molina - Spanish dramatist who wrote the first dramatic treatment of the legend of Don Juan (1571-1648)


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9780820433103 The Achillean hero in the plays of Tirso de Molina.
To this he adds a perceptive analysis of a famous sequence in Don Quixote climaxed by the puppet theater of Maese Pedro (alias picaro Gines de Pasamonte) revealing how Cervantes creates therein a microcosm and history of the early stages of Spanish theater, a poetics of jongleuresque performance, and an image of the survival of those traditions alongside the vigorous growth of classical Spanish theater in the seventeenth century shaped by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca.
10) Literary manifestations praising the playwright are not limited to this collection of his works, in fact, Tirso de Molina expresses his adoration for Benavente's interludes in his comedia titled Tanto es lo de mas como lo de Menos (7) as well as for his bailes in Cigarrales de Toledo (219).
 
 
 
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