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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

José de Canizares (1676–1750)

Canizares, José (kän-yē-thär’es). A Spanish dramatist; born in Madrid, July 4, 1676; died there, Sept. 4, 1750. He wrote dramas at an early age. Among them ‘Balance Sheets (or Accounts) of the Great Captain,’ an historical play. The Spanish stage owes to him, moreover, ‘What passes from Sceptre to Sceptre’; ‘England’s Cruelty’; and other productions of merit.