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DIAMANTE, JUAN BAUTISTA (164o ?-1684 ?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 157 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIAMANTE, JUAN BAUTISTA (164o ?-1684 ?) , See also:Spanish dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Castillo about 164o, entered the See also:army, and began See also:writing for the See also:stage in 1657. He became a See also:knight of See also:Santiago in 166o; the date of his See also:death is unknown, but no reference to him as a living author occurs after 1684. Like many other Spanish dramatists of his See also:time, Diamante is deficient in originality, and his See also:style is riddled with affectations; La Desgraciada Raquel, which was See also:long considered to be his best See also:play, is really Mira, de Amescua's Judia de See also:Toledo under another See also:title; and the earliest of Diamante's surviving pieces, El Honrador de su padre (1658), is little more than a See also:free See also:translation of See also:Corneille's See also:Cid. Diamante is historically interesting as the introducer of See also:French dramatic methods into See also:Spain.

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