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MONTALBAN, JUAN PEREZ DE (1602–1638)

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MONTALBAN, JUAN See also:PEREZ DE (1602–1638) , See also:Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Madrid in 1602. At the See also:age of eighteen he became a licentiate in See also:theology, was ordained See also:priest in 1625 and appointed See also:notary to the See also:Inquisition. In 1619 he began See also:writing for the See also:stage under the guidance of Lope de See also:Vega, who is said to have assisted him in composing El Orfeo en lengua castellana (1624), a poem obviously intended to compete with See also:Jauregui's Orfeo, published earlier in the same See also:year. The See also:prose tales in Sucesos y prodigies de amor (1624) and See also:Para todos (1632) were very popular. Montalban's See also:father, a publisher at Madrid, issued a pirated edition of Quevedo's Busc6n, which roused an angry controversy. The violence of these polemics, the See also:strain of overwork, and the See also:death of Lope de Vega so affected Montalban that he became insane; he died at Madrid on the 25th of See also:June 1638. His last See also:work was a eulogistic See also:biography of Lope de Vega in the See also:Fama pOstuma (1636). His plays, published in 1635–1638, are all in the manner of that See also:great dramatist, and were represented with much success, but, with the exception of Los Amantes de See also:Teruel, are little more than See also:clever improvizations. A libellous attack on Quevedo, entitled El Tribunal de la justa venganza (1635), is often ascribed to him.

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