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CLAVIJO Y FAJARDO, JOSE (173o–18o6)

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CLAVIJO, RUY GONZALEZ DE (d. 1412)

CLAVIJO Y See also:
FAJARDO
FAJARDO, JOSE (173o–18o6) , See also:

SPANISH

Spanish publicist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

LANZAROTE

Lanzarote (See also:

Canary Islands) in 1730. He settled in See also:

MADRID

Madrid, became editor of El Pensador, and by his See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign against the public performance of autos sacramentales secured their 'See also:

PROHIBITION (Lat. prohibere, to prevent)

prohibition in 1765. In 1770 he was appointed director of the royal theatres, a See also:

POST

post which he resigned in See also:

order to take up the editorship of the Mercurio histOrico y politico de Madrid: at the See also:

time of his See also:

DEATH

death in 18o6 he was secretary to the See also:

CABINET

Cabinet of Natural See also:

HISTORY

History. He had in abundance the courage, per-severance and See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of pungent expression which See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form the equipment of the aggressive journalist, but his See also:

WORK

work would See also:

long since have been forgotten were it not that it put an end to a peculiarly See also:

NATIONAL

national form of dramatic exposition, and that his love affair with one of See also:

BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE (1732-1799)

Beaumarchais' sisters suggested the theme of See also:

GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe's first publication, Clavigo.

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