Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Gabriel Tellez

TELLEZ, Gabriel (c. 1570–1648), Spanish dramatist, better known as Tirso de Molina (his nom de plume), was born about the year 1570, and about 1613 entered the order of the Brothers of Charity at Toledo. In 1645 he became prior of the monastery of the order at Soria, where he died in 1648.

His dramatic works are said to have numbered nearly 300, but of these only a small proportion are now extant. A selection of the best of them was edited by Hartzenbusch in 1839-42 (Madrid, 12 vols.). See Drama, vol. vii. p. 421, and Spanish Literature, vol. xxii. p. 359.