Lope de Vega
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is second to Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes said that Lope de Vega was “The Phoenix of Wits” (''Fénix de los ingenios'') and “Monster of Nature” (''Monstruo de naturaleza'').Lope de Vega renewed the literary life of Spanish theatre when it became mass culture, and with the playwrights Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina defined the characteristics of Spanish Baroque theatre with great insight into the human condition. The literary production of Lope de Vega includes 3,000 sonnets, three novels, four novellas, nine epic poems, and approximately 500 stageplays.
Personally and professionally, Lope de Vega was friend to the writer Francisco de Quevedo and arch-enemy of the dramatist Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. The volume of literary works produced by Lope de Vega earned him the envy of his contemporaries, such as Cervantes and Luis de Góngora, and the admiration of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for such a vast and colourful oeuvre. Lope de Vega was also a close friend of Sebastian Francisco de Medrano, founder and president of the Poetic Academy of Madrid. He would attend Medrano's Academy from 1616 to 1626, and his relationship with Medrano is evident in his ''El Laurel de Apolo'' (1630) in silva VII. Provided by Wikipedia
1
2
Published: c2010.
Superior document: A Margellos world republic of letters book
3
4
Published: 1934
Superior document: Humanities Bulletin 2
5
Published: 1965
Superior document: Colección Támesis : Serie B, Textos 1
6
7
Published: 1918
Superior document: University of California publications in modern philology 6
8
Published: 1970
Superior document: Libros de bolsillo Z 180
9
Published: 1868
Superior document: Spanisches Theater 3 : Schauspiele von Lope de Vega ; 1
Links: Volltext