Francisco Agustín Tárrega


Francisco Agustín Tárrega was a Spanish clergyman, poet and playwright.

Biography

After graduating in the Arts from the University of Valencia in 1575, he went on to obtain his doctorate in Canon law from the University of Salamanca in 1578.
Tárrega was of the co-founders, in 1591, of the Academia de los Nocturnos, one of the first academia literarias created in Spain, where he participated under the pseudonym of Miedo.

Works

As a participant of the Nocturnos, and writing under the pseudonym Miedo, Tárrega wrote several tens of poems and works of prose. His comedias, all dating from after the mid-1580s, were published posthumously, with El Prado de Valencia being a heroic drama and the remainder, cloak-and-sword plays.

Plays