Juan Crisóstomo Vélez de Guevara (

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, 1611 – íbid., 20 November 1675), son of

Luis Vélez de Guevara Luis Vélez de Guevara (born Luis Vélez de Santander) (1 August 1579 – 10 November 1644) was a Spanish dramatist and novelist. He was born at Écija and was of Jewish converso descent.Antonio Dominiguez Ortiz, "Los judeoconversos en Españ ...

, was, like his father, a playwright of the

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. Like his father Luis, Juan Vélez entered the service of the Duque de Veragua as a lawyer, and from there in 1642 succeeded his father as an Usher of the Royal Chamber. Well known in his day as a composer of short theatrical pieces, notably ''entremeses'' and ''bailes'', many of them performed at the Spanish Court, Vélez junior likewise wrote and published full-length plays such as ''El diciembre por agosto, Nuestra Señora de las Nieves'' (1637), ''Endimión y la luna'' (1656), and the

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''Los celos hacen estrella'' (1672). He also wrote, in collaboration, ''Amor vencido de Amor'' (with Juan de Zabaleta and Antonio de la Huerta); ''La verdad en el engaño'' (with

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and

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); the

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''Los siete infantes de Lara'' (1650, with Jerónimo de Cáncer); and ''La cortesana en la sierra'' and ''El hidalgo de La Mancha'' (with Juan Bautista Diamante and Juan de Matos Fragoso).

Sources

* Javier Huerta Calvo dir., ''Historia del teatro español'', Madrid, Gredos, 2003. {{DEFAULTSORT:Velez de Guevara, Juan 1611 births 1675 deaths Spanish male dramatists and playwrights 17th-century Spanish writers 17th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights 17th-century male writers