Search

Vega, Lope de

Previous Next
Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Lope de Vega Madrid 1562 Madrid 1635 M P0876

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
lute guitar vihuela guitarra laúd Autor de comedias Professional Urban Author Author - poet, playwright

Years active Place active Century Region
Madrid 17cent/1/early Castilla
Biographical information

Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled, making him one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature.
Nicknamed "The Phoenix of Wits" and "Monster of Nature" (because of the volume of his work) by Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega renewed the Spanish theatre at a time when it was starting to become a mass cultural phenomenon. He defined the key characteristics of it, and along with Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina, he took Spanish baroque theatre to its greater limits. Because of the insight, depth and ease of his plays, he is regarded among the best dramatists of Western literature, his plays still being represented worldwide. He was also one of the best lyric poets in the Spanish language, and author of various novels. Although not well known in the English-speaking world, his plays were presented in England as late as the 1660s, when diarist Samuel Pepys recorded having attended some adaptations and translations of them, although he omits mentioning the author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega

Related persons


Source documents
Date Document
1604 Lope de Vega Carpio, El peregrino en su patria.
1598 Lope de Vega Carpio, La Arcadia. Prosas y Versos.
1594/1604 Lope de Vega Carpio, El maestro de danzar.
1612 Lope de Vega, Pastores de Belén, prosas y versos divinos.
1613 Lope de Vega, Santiago el Verde.
1604 Lope de Vega Carpio, Las comedias del famoso poeta Lope de Vega Carpio recopiladas por Bernardo Grassa.
1594 Lope de Vega Carpio, El sembrar en buena tierra.
1603 Lope de Vega Carpio, Las comedias del famoso poeta Lope de Vega Carpio recopiladas por Bernardo Grassa.
1609 Lope de Vega Carpio, Segunda parte de las comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio.
1617 Lope de Vega Carpio, Septima parte de sus comedias...
1617 Lope de Vega Carpio, Octava parte de las comedias de Lope de Vega.
1618 Lope de Vega Carpio, Decima parte de las comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio.
1620 Lope de Vega Carpio, Parte catorce de las comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio.
1630 Lope de Vega Carpio, Laurel de Apolo con otras rimas
1632 Lope de Vega Carpio, La Dorotea.
1637 Lope de Vega Carpio, La vega del Parnaso.
1604 Lope de Vega Carpio, El molino.


Bibliography
Ref Author Item Pages
escobar2024 Escobar Borrego, Francisco J. “Versos y notas teóricas del práctico Lope al calor de su amistad con Espinel (con sones de Palomares y Blas de Castro). Atlanta 12.1 (2024): 125-161.
Contributor