Ramón de la Cruz
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Bust of Ramón de la Cruz in Madrid (L. Coullaut, 1913)
Ramón de la Cruz (March 28, 1731 – March 5, 1794), Spanish neoclassical dramatist, was born in Madrid.
He was a clerk in the ministry of finance, and is the author of three hundred sainetes, little farcical sketches of city life, written to be played between the acts of a longer play. He published a selection in ten volumes (Madrid, 1786–1791). The best of his pieces, such as Las Tertulias de Madrid, are specimens of satiric observation.
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- Emilio Cotarelo y Mori, Don Ramón de la Cruz y sus obras (Madrid, 1899);
- Carlos Cambronero, Sainetes inéditos existentes en la Biblioteca Municipal de Madrid (Madrid, 1900).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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