Castro y Bellvís Guillén de
Noviembre 19, 2008
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Castro y Bellvís, Guillén de (1569-1631), Spanish dramatist, born in Valencia of a distinguished family. He enjoyed the friendship of many celebrated and powerful personages and was a captain in the military forces of Valencia. Like his friend the renowned Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega, Castro was a well-known playwright of the Golden Age of Spanish literature. Castro’s most celebrated play is The Youthful Deeds of the Cid (1618; trans. 1969), from which the French dramatist Pierre Corneille derived his masterpiece Le Cid. Most of the approximately 50 dramas written by Castro deal with the legendary deeds of El Cid.
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