José Zorrilla- Notable Biographies

(1817/02/21 - 1893/01/23)

Jose Zorrilla and Moral
Spanish dramatist and poet

He was born on 21 February in Valladolid.
He studied at the University of Toledo and Valladolid. At the funeral of Mariano José de Larra read as a tribute: "to the memory of the young writer don Mariano José Larra" (1837) which gave it popularity. Despite the success, he did not leave ruin their penchant to spend and splurge.
He was member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1848, when he was 31 years of age had read his discursó investiture in verse. Author of songs of the minstrel, the poem Granada, plays the Shoemaker and the King, Don Juan Tenorio, traitor, unconfessed and martyr and the dagger from the Goth.
In 1850, he travels to France and in 1855 to Mexico. He was appointed director of the National Theatre by the Emperor Maximiliano. When he returned to Spain, in 1866, it was found that despite the extraordinary reputation of his work could not charge copyright. He lived in poverty until he received a pension from the Government.
In 1889 he was crowned as poet laureate of Spain in Granada by the Duke of Rivas in the presence of the Queen Regent Isabella II. Don Juan Tenorio (1844), perhaps the only dramatic piece known by all Spaniards, often recover traditionally every year on November 1.
José Zorrilla died in Madrid on January 23, 1893.