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Ángela de Azevedo (or Acevedo; born c. 1600) was a Portuguese playwright.
De Azevedo was born in Lisbon, likely in the early 17th century, to nobleman João de Azevedo Pereira of Casa Real and his wife Izabel de Oliveira. She spent time in the court of Philip IV of Spain in Madrid as a handmaiden to the king's wife Elisabeth of Bourbon.
She wrote several plays, three of which have survived to the present:
All three are written in Spanish and placed in Portugal. The first has a secular theme, while the remaining two have typically religious themes. Given her ties to the court, it is thought that her plays may have been staged in the palace.
Her biographers note that de Azevedo married sometime before Elisabeth's death in 1644, but do not record her husband's name. After his death, she retired with her daughter to a Benedictine convent in Portugal where she lived until her death.