Echegaray, JOSE, born in Madrid in 1832, has been successively professor of physics, member of the Cortes (1868), minister of education (1873), and dramatist. Of his dramas, more than 30 in number and very original, some are in verse. Possibly Folly or Saintliness (trans. by Lynch, 1895) is his masterpiece; others translated are El Gran Galeoto, The Son of Don Juan, and Mariana.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 181
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