Jerónimo de Cáncer facts for kids

Jerónimo de Cáncer y Velasco (c. 1599 – 1655) was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age.

Spanish poet and playwright. He was born in Barbastro in 1594, of noble family and protected from the counts of Moon and fog. Friend of the most important playwrights of his time, Moreto, Pedro Rosete Niño and Antonio Huerta. An improviser, intelligent, he used surprising play on words in conceptually. Described by Fray Andrés Ferro de Valdecebo as "the first to make puns with soul". He wrote only two plays without foreign collaboration: Baldovinos, prohibited by the Inquisition in 1790, death and the mocedades del Cid, burlesque tone 2. ..... Rosete and Martínez wrote the Ark of Noah and the best representative san Ginés. Most of these works were written to make money in a quick way, so are a combination of inspiration and imitation.

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In Spanish: Jerónimo de Cáncer y Velasco para niños