author
Heliodoro Criado y Baca
b. 1843
Known for lively one-act comic plays and zarzuelas, this Spanish dramatist wrote for the popular stage in the late 19th century. His surviving works suggest a flair for quick wit, theatrical parody, and collaboration.
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Tres Comedias Modernas en un acto y en prosa
by Mariano Barranco, Luis Cocat, Heliodoro Criado y Baca, Miguel Ramos Carrión
About the author
Heliodoro Criado y Baca was a Spanish playwright born in 1843. The basic facts that can be confirmed from library and authority records are limited, but those records consistently identify him as a dramatist writing in Spanish.
His name appears on a range of late-19th-century comic and musical stage works, including La caricatura (1885), and on collaborative pieces such as Monomanía teatral and Tres comedias modernas. The titles associated with him point to a writer at home in short theatrical forms like the juguete cómico and zarzuela, genres built for energy, humor, and performance.
Much of what remains easily traceable today comes through digitized editions, library catalogs, and public-domain archives rather than detailed modern biographies. Even so, those records preserve the outline of a working theater author whose plays formed part of Spain's popular entertainment culture.