Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas

Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas

Don Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, Duke of Rivas (Spanish: Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, Duque de Rivas) (March 10, 1791 - June 22, 1865), was a Spanish poet, dramatist and politician born in Córdoba. He is best known for his play Don Álvaro; o, La fuerza del sino (1835), the first Spanish Romance romantic success in the Spanish theater.

Bibliography

• Duque de Rivas, Obras completas (Madrid 1956).
• R. Cardwell, "Don Álvaro or the Force of Cosmic Injustice" in Studies in Romanticism 12 (1973): 559-79.
• D. T. Gies The Theater in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Cambridge 1994).
• G. H. Lovett, The Duke of Rivas (Boston 1977).
• W. T. Pattison, "The secret of Don Álvaro" in Symposium 21 (1967): 67-81.
• J. Valero and S. Zighelboim, "Don Álvaro o la fuerza del signo" in Decimononica 3 (2006): 53-71.

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Other websites

• Don Álvaro, or the Force of Fate Archived 2005-03-09 at the Wayback Machine (description of English translation by Robert G. Trimble)
• "Ángel de Saavedra Remírez de Baquedano". Catholic Encyclopedia.