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Also Known As	Gabriel Téllez
Born	March 9, 1584? • Madrid • Spain
Died	March 12, 1648 • Soria • Spain
Notable Works	“Antona García” • “Cigarrales de Toledo” • “Don Gil de las calzas verdes” • “El burlador de Sevilla” • “El vergonzoso en palacio” • “Historia general de la orden de la Merced” • “La venganza de Tamar” • “Prudence in Woman” • “The Doubted Damned”
Movement / Style	Golden Age

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Jacinto Benavente y Martínez

Spanish dramatist

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega

Spanish author

Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.

Federico García Lorca

Spanish writer

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Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla

Spanish dramatist

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Manuel Bretón de los Herreros

Spanish writer

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Vicente García de la Huerta

Spanish writer

Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English author

Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Portrait of American dramatist Eugene O'Neill in 1936, showing him in a suit and tie with a serious expression and a neatly groomed mustache.

Eugene O’Neill

American dramatist

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Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

John Fletcher, engraving

John Fletcher

English dramatist

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Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

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Gil Vicente

Portuguese dramatist

Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

Heinrich von Kleist

German author

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Marivaux, Pierre

Pierre Marivaux

French author

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Pietro Aretino

Italian author