Ramón de la Cruz
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Ramón de la Cruz (March 28, 1731 - March 5, 1794), Spanish dramatist, was born at Madrid.
He was a clerk in the ministry of finance, and 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 delightful specimens of satiric observation.
See Emilio Cotarelo y Mori, Don Ramón de la Cruz y sus obras (Madrid, 1899); Carlos Cambronero, Sainetes inéditos existentes en la Biblioteca Municipal de Madrid (Madrid, 1900).
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