Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas

Don Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, Duke of 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.

 Other websites 
 Don Álvaro, or the Force of Fate  (description of English translation by Robert G. Trimble)


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