José Zorrilla

José Zorrilla was born in Valladolid in 1817, the son of an absolutist magistrate. A pupil of the Jesuits at the Seminary of Nobles in Madrid, sent to study law in Toledo and then in Valladolid, he ran away to Madrid and lived there in poverty. He became known through the elegy he read at the funeral of the satirist Larra, then wrote poems and dramas in great numbers. He left Spain at the end of the 1840s, lived in Paris and then spent eleven years in Mexico. Back in 1866 and long poor, he was proclaimed national poet in 1889 and died in Madrid in 1893.

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• TheatreDon Juan TenorioJosé Zorrilla · 1844LiteraturePublic domain