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Luis Cocat
A Spanish playwright remembered for lively one-act comedies and comic musical pieces, he published widely in the late 19th century. His surviving works suggest a writer with a taste for popular theater, brisk dialogue, and lighthearted stage plots.
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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
Luis Cocat was a Spanish playwright who wrote in Spanish and is identified in library and catalog records as a dramatist from Spain. Surviving bibliographic records connect him with a substantial body of theatrical work, especially short comic pieces and librettos intended for popular performance.
His known titles include works such as De vuelta de Argel (1881) and Dos chicos en grande (1889), and he also appears as a co-author of Tres Comedias Modernas. Many of the works associated with him are described as juguetes cómicos, humoradas, or comic-lyric pieces, which points to a career rooted in entertaining, accessible stage writing.
Reliable biographical details beyond his nationality, language, and occupation are hard to confirm from the sources available here, so little else can be stated with confidence. Even so, the record of his publications shows a writer who was active in the world of Spanish popular theater and whose plays have continued to circulate through library collections and later reprints.