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Bautista may have been of Jewish stock, and that the Diamante family, including the playwright's half-brothers Pablo and Francisco Diamante who also achieved success in their different spheres, falsified public records of marriage, baptism, etc. in
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Diamante collaborated with other playwrights and poets of the time, notably
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Thirty-nine plays were published in his lifetime, twenty-four of them as
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256:(edited version based on the 1713 Zaragoza MS) - authorship and date
241:"A checklist of plays by or attributed to Juan Bautista Diamante"
63:. . . . Many plays (some of doubtful attribution, such as
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22:(29 August 1625? – 2 November 1687), minor
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61:Comedias escogidas de los mejores de España
57:Comedias de Fr. Don Iuan Bautista Diamante
294:Don Juan Bautista Diamante y sus comedias
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300:, vol. 3 (1916), pp. 272-97 and 454-97.
283:(3rd ed. Boston, 1864), II, 330, n. 12.
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217:"New Light on Juan Bautista Diamante"
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298:Boletín de la Real Academia Española
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270:(Barcelona, 1956), pp. 413, 452.
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268:Historia del teatro español
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162:under another title; and
98:Sebastián de Villaviciosa
193:La reina María Estuarda
164:El Honrador de su padre
110:Francisco de Avellaneda
65:La devoción del rosario
46:order to obscure their
20:Juan Bautista Diamante
266:Ángel Valbuena Prat,
189:el Alcides castellano
160:La Desgraciada Raquel
292:E. Cotarelo y Mori,
254:La Magdalena de Roma
197:Mary, Queen of Scots
181:El hércules de Ocaña
69:La Magdalena de Roma
185:Alonso de Céspedes
183:, on the fearless
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94:Juan Vélez
39:Charles II
332:Conversos
168:Corneille
121:zarzuelas
52:origins.
35:Philip IV
27:dramatist
31:Calderón
78:sueltas
49:marrano
24:Spanish
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173:Le Cid
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