Gabriel Bocángel y Unzueta (1603–1658) was a playwright and poet of the Spanish Golden Age.
Born in Madrid, he studied at Alcalá de Henares and then served as librarian to Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand.
Philip IV of Spain granted him a life pension.
[1] He was the first playwright to introduce music into theatrical performances, thus creating a distant precursor to the zarzuela.
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