Juan de la Cueva

Juan de la Cueva de Garoza (* 1543 in Seville, † 1612) was a Spanish poet and dramatist of the Siglo de Oro.

He lived in Cuenca, in the Canary Islands and from 1574 to 1577 in Mexico; after his return to Spain he began to write plays. He devoted himself to historical and mythological subjects and violated one of the first against the three classical unities of time, space and action and also mixed tragic and comic elements, thus he became the forerunner of Lope de Vega, only that he is still the division maintained in four acts.

He also wrote sonnets, eclogues and odes, which appeared in the collection of poems Flores de Poesía Varia.

14 plays, including: El infamador ( 1581 to precursors of El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina be ) going on, El Saco de Roma, La muerte del Rey Don Sancho, La libertad de España por Bernardo de Carpio and Tragedia de siete Infantes de Lara

Other works: Viage de Sannio, La Muracinda, Llanto de Venus en la muerte de Adonis, Los amores de Marte y Venus, Coro de Febeo historiales Romances ( 1587 ). La conquista de la bética ( Seville, 1603), epic. El ejemplar poétco ( written in 1606, publ. 1774), a kind of literary manifesto

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• Obras de Juan de la Cueva ( Seville, 1582)
• Primera parte de las carry dias y dias come de Juan de la Cueva ( 1583 )