Antonio Mira de Amescua
Antonio Mira de Amescua (January 17, 1577 — September 8, 1644),
Mira de Amescua's plays are dispersed in various printed collections, and the absence of a satisfactory edition has prevented, his due recognition. He has an evenness of execution which indicates an artistic conscience uncommon in Spanish playwrights; he resisted the temptation to write too much, and he unites a virile dignity of expression to impressive conception of character.[2]
Two of his plays—La adversa fortuna de Don Bernardo de Cabrera and El ejemplo mayor de la desdicha—are respectively the sources of Rotrou's Don Bernardo de la Cabrère and Belisaire; Moreto's Caer para levantar is simply a recast of Mira's El Esclavo del demonio, a celebrated drama which clearly influenced Calderón when composing La Devoción de la cruz; and there is manifestly a close relation between Mira's La Rueda de la fortuna on the one hand and Corneille's Héraclius and Calderón's En esta vida todo es verdad y todo es mentira. A few of Mira de Amescua's plays are reprinted in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. xlv.[2]
References
- ^ "Mira de Amescua, Antonio" (PDF). Academia de Buenas Letras de Granada.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mira de Amescua, Antonio". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 572–573. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Works by or about Antonio Mira de Amescua at Internet Archive
- Works by Antonio Mira de Amescua at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)