José de Cañizares (1676-1750), dramaturgo madrileño. Su producción es amplia, alrededor de ochenta obras, y variada en su género y temática. Se ofrecen las distintas visiones de la crítica literaria para comprobar que, en contadas ocasiones, se ha enfocado su estudio a partir de los propios textos y de las fuentes documentales; de tal manera que la percepción de la obra y la figura de Cañizares ha quedado limitada a las críticas que han ido repitiéndose a lo largo de la historia de la literatura.

José de Cañizares (1676-1750), Spanish dramatist from Madrid, being his production assorted and prolific in genre and theme, with about eighty plays. It is offered different views of literary crititcism to establish that, seldom, the study of his author has been focused on starting from his own texts and documentary sources, so Cañizares´ work and personality perception have been restricted to a criticisms, which have been repeated along the history of literature.