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Born | Damaso Luis Martínez Eguílaz y Eguílaz 20 August 1830
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
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Died | 22 July 1874
Madrid, Spain | (aged 43)
Resting place | Cemetery of Saint Nicholas |
Other names | El Licenciado Escribe |
Occupation | Writer |
Children | Rosa de Eguílaz y Renart |
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Damaso Luis Martínez Eguílaz y Eguílaz (20 August 1830 [1] [2] [a] – 22 July 1874 [2] [3]) was a Spanish writer and dramatist, father of playwright Rosa de Eguílaz y Renart.
Luis de Eguílaz was a disciple of the humanist and unfrocked friar Juan María Capitán. He found his dramatic vocation early; at age 14 he premiered the one-act comedy Por dinero baila el perro in Jerez de la Frontera. He studied law in Madrid and began his literary career with a critical study of the novel Clemencia by Fernán Caballero. He sometimes used the pseudonym El Licenciado Escribe (the graduate writer), a play on the name of the famous French dramatist Eugène Scribe.
In court he defended Eugenio de Ochoa, the man of letters and illegitimate son of Sebastián Miñano . Thanks to him, Eguílaz was able to release his first serious work, Verdades amargas, in 1853, the success of which placed him among the most popular authors of the time. In the last years of his life he directed the National Historical Archive. He died on 22 July 1874 in his home on San Agustín Street in Madrid, [1] and was buried in the Cemetery of Saint Nicholas . [4] The news greatly affected Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, who was spending that summer in Santander, and composed a poem in Eguílaz's memory dated 5 August 1874. There is an oil portrait of Luis de Eguílaz in the Ateneo de Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
Luis de Eguílaz's dramatic works are vigorously conceived, with well-defined characters, but have an excessive and perhaps inflexible lyricism. His theater is that of traditionalist ideology, and indoctrinates through the procedures of costumbrismo. His works can be divided into three groups:
Luis de Eguílaz | |
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![]() Luis de Eguílaz in
La Ilustración Española y Americana | |
Born | Damaso Luis Martínez Eguílaz y Eguílaz 20 August 1830
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
[a] |
Died | 22 July 1874
Madrid, Spain | (aged 43)
Resting place | Cemetery of Saint Nicholas |
Other names | El Licenciado Escribe |
Occupation | Writer |
Children | Rosa de Eguílaz y Renart |
Signature | |
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Damaso Luis Martínez Eguílaz y Eguílaz (20 August 1830 [1] [2] [a] – 22 July 1874 [2] [3]) was a Spanish writer and dramatist, father of playwright Rosa de Eguílaz y Renart.
Luis de Eguílaz was a disciple of the humanist and unfrocked friar Juan María Capitán. He found his dramatic vocation early; at age 14 he premiered the one-act comedy Por dinero baila el perro in Jerez de la Frontera. He studied law in Madrid and began his literary career with a critical study of the novel Clemencia by Fernán Caballero. He sometimes used the pseudonym El Licenciado Escribe (the graduate writer), a play on the name of the famous French dramatist Eugène Scribe.
In court he defended Eugenio de Ochoa, the man of letters and illegitimate son of Sebastián Miñano . Thanks to him, Eguílaz was able to release his first serious work, Verdades amargas, in 1853, the success of which placed him among the most popular authors of the time. In the last years of his life he directed the National Historical Archive. He died on 22 July 1874 in his home on San Agustín Street in Madrid, [1] and was buried in the Cemetery of Saint Nicholas . [4] The news greatly affected Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, who was spending that summer in Santander, and composed a poem in Eguílaz's memory dated 5 August 1874. There is an oil portrait of Luis de Eguílaz in the Ateneo de Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
Luis de Eguílaz's dramatic works are vigorously conceived, with well-defined characters, but have an excessive and perhaps inflexible lyricism. His theater is that of traditionalist ideology, and indoctrinates through the procedures of costumbrismo. His works can be divided into three groups: