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Heliodoro Criado y Baca

b. 1843

A 19th-century Spanish playwright, he is remembered for short comic stage works and lively librettos that capture the playful spirit of popular theater. His surviving titles suggest a writer drawn to humor, music, and quick-moving one-act pieces.

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Tres Comedias Modernas

Tres Comedias Modernas

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. Reliable catalog and authority records identify him as a dramatist, and surviving editions of his work show that he wrote for the stage in Spanish, especially short comic pieces.

The works associated with him include titles such as La caricatura, Monomanía teatral, and El guardapiés del diablo. Library and public-domain listings also connect him with comic and comic-lyric theater, including one-act plays, zarzuelas, and operettas, which places him within the lively world of late 19th-century popular Spanish performance.

Not much biographical detail seems to be readily documented online beyond his birth year and profession. Even so, the number of surviving play texts and catalog records suggests a working writer whose theater was meant to entertain audiences with wit, music, and brisk stage action.