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MATOS FRAGOSO, JUAN DE (1614?-1689)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 889 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MATOS FRAGOSO, JUAN DE (1614?-1689) , Spanish dramatist, of Portuguese descent, was
born
  about 1614 at Alsito (
Alemtejo
 ). After taking his degree in law at the university of Evora, he proceeded to Madrid, where he made acquaintance with Perez de
Montalban
 , and thus obtained an introduction to the stage. He quickly displayed
great
  cleverness in hitting the public
taste
 , and many contemporaries of superior talent eagerly sought his aid as a collaborator. The earliest of his printed plays is La Defensa de la fe y principe prodigioso (1651), and twelve more pieces were published in 1658. But though his popularity continued
long
  after his death (January 4, 1689),
Matos Fragoso's dramas do not stand the test of
reading
 , His emphatic preciosity and sophistical insistence on the " point of honour " are tedious and unconvincing; in La Venganza en el despeno, in A lo que obliga un agravio, and in other plays, he merely recasts, very adroitly, works by Lope de
Vega
 .


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