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Author · Mexico, Spain

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

Died in 1639

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born in New Spain around 1580, in Taxco or in Mexico City according to the sources. He studied law in Mexico City and at Salamanca, made several journeys back and forth between Spain and Mexico, and settled in Madrid, where he wrote some twenty plays. A hunchback, he was the target of mockery from Lope de Vega and Quevedo, to whom he replied harshly. Having become a rapporteur of the Council of the Indies, he almost stopped writing and published his comedies in two volumes, in 1628 and 1634. He died in Madrid on 4 August 1639.

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