Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla

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Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla (1607 - c. 1660) was a Spanish dramatist.

He is known to have been born at Toledo; the only other fact recorded about his life is that he became a knight of Santiago in 1644. The exact date of his death is unknown.

His plays were published between 1640 and 1645; his greatest dramatic composition, Del Rey abajo Ninguno, was printed separately under the title of Garcia del Castanar. Of his other pieces, apart from their intrinsic merit, an international interest attaches to No hay padre siendo rey, which was borrowed by Jean Rotrou for his Venceslas; to Donde hay agravios no hay zelos and the Amo criado, which were imitated by Paul Scarron in his Jodelet Souffleté and Maître Valet; to Entre Bobos anda el juego, the source of Thomas Corneille's Don Bertrand de Cigarral, as well as of Scarron's Don Japhel d'Armenie; to Obligados y ofendidos, from which are derived Les Généreux Ennemis by François le Metel de Boisrobert, Les Illustres Ennemis by Thomas Corneille, and Scarron's Ecolier de Salamanque; and to La traición busca el castigo, upon which are based Sir John Vanbrugh's False Friend and Le Sage's Traitre puni.