Ramón de la Cruz (28 March 1731 – 5 March 1794) was a Spanish neoclassical

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

. Born in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...

, he was a clerk in the ministry of finance. He is the author of three hundred '' sainetes'', little farcical sketches of city life, written to be played between the acts of a longer play. He published a selection in ten volumes (Madrid, 1786–1791). The best of his pieces, such as ''Las Tertulias de Madrid'', are specimens of satiric observation.

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* 1731 births 1794 deaths Writers from Madrid Spanish dramatists and playwrights Spanish male dramatists and playwrights Clerks Spanish opera librettists 18th-century Spanish writers 18th-century dramatists and playwrights 18th-century male writers {{Spain-dramatist-stub