Jan 8, 2009

Ángel de Saavedra | Ángel de Saavedra

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In addition to his drama, Ángel de Saavedra produced poetry and nonfiction works.

Achievements

Ángel de Saavedra was a prolific writer as well as an influential politician. Better known as the duke of Rivas to critics and the public, his literary production, especially the drama Don Álvaro, has been described alternatively as the best of Spanish Romanticism, by his friend and colleague Antonio Alcalá Galiano, and as a play whose main value lies in its intense theatricality, by the drama critic and historian Francisco Ruiz Ramón....

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