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Guillén de Castro y Bellvis (
1569 –
July 28,
1631), was a
Spanish dramatist of the
Spanish Golden Age.
A
Valencian by birth, he soon achieved a literary reputation. In
1591 he joined a local literary academy called the
Nocturnos. At one time a captain of the coastguard, at another the protégé of Benavente, viceroy of
Naples, who appointed him governor of
Scigliano, patronized by
Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna and
Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Castro was nominated a knight of the order of Santiago in 1623. He settled at Madrid in 1626, but died there in such poverty that his funeral expenses were defrayed by charity.
He probably made the acquaintance of
Lope de Vega at the festivals (1620-1622) held to commemorate the beatification and canonization of
St Isidore, the patron saint of Madrid. On the latter occasion Castro's
octavas were awarded the first prize. Lope de Vega dedicated to him a celebrated play entitled
Las Almenas de Toro (1619), and when Castro's
Comedias were published in 1618-1621 he dedicated the first volume to Lope de Vega's daughter.
The drama that has made Castro's reputation is
Las Mocedades del Cid (1599?), to the first part of which
Pierre Corneille was largely indebted for the materials of his tragedy. The two parts of this play, like all those by Castro, have the genuine ring of the old romances; and, from their intense nationality, no less than for their primitive poetry and flowing versification, were among the most popular pieces of their day. Castro's
Fuerza de la costumbre is the source of
Love's Cure, a play in the
John Fletcher canon. He is also the reputed author of
El Prodigio de los Montes, from which
Calderón derived
El Mágico prodigioso.
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