Félix+Arturo+Lope+de+Vega

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**Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio** (usually called simply **Lope de Vega**; 25 November 1562 - 27 August 1635) was one of the important playwrights and poets of the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters 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 sheer 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.

He is attributed some 3,000 sonnets, 3 novels, 4 novellas, 9 epic poems, and about 1,800 plays. Although the quality of all of them is not the same, at least 80 of his plays are considered masterpieces. A friend to Quevedo and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, the sheer volume of his lifework made him envied by not only contemporary authors such as Cervantes and Góngora, but also by many others: for instance, Goethe once wished he had been able to produce such a vast and colourful work. (http://wapedia.mobi/en/Lope_de_Vega)



**Félix Arturo Lope de Vega**

**Plays**
 * //El maestro de danzar// (1594) (//The Dancing Master//)
 * //El acero de Madrid// (//The Steel of Madrid//)
 * //El perro del Hortelano// ("The Dog in the Manger")
 * //La viuda valenciana// (//The Widow from Valencia//)
 * //Peribáñez y el comendador de Ocaña//
 * //Fuente Ovejuna//
 * //El anzuelo de Fenisa// (//Fenisa's Hook//)
 * //El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero//
 * //El mejor alcade, el Rey// (//The Best Mayor, The King//)
 * //El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón// (//The New World Discovered by Christopher Columbus//)
 * //El caballero de Olmedo// (//The Knight of Olmedo//)
 * //La dama boba// (//The Stupid Lady//; //The Lady-Fool//)
 * //El amor enamorado//
 * //El castigo sin venganza// (//Justice Without Revenge//)
 * //Las bizarrías de Belisa//
 * //El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi// (//The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward//)
 * //Lo Fingido Verdadero// (//What you Pretend Has Become Real//)

**Opera**
 * //La selva sin amor// (18 December 1627) (//The Lovelorn Forest//), first Spanish opera / zarzuela [3]

**Poems**
 * //La Dragontea// (1598) ("Drake the Pirate")
 * //El Isidro// (1599) ("Isidro")
 * //La hermosura de Angélica// (1602) ("The Beauty of Angelica")
 * //Rimas// (1602) ("Rhymes")
 * //Arte nuevo de hacer comedias// (1609)
 * //Jerusalén conquistada// (1609)
 * //Rimas sacras// (1614)
 * //La Filomena// (1621)
 * //La Circe// (1624)
 * //El laurel de Apolo// (1630)
 * //La Gatomaquia// (1634)
 * //Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos// (1634)

**Prose fiction**
 * //Arcadia// (published 1598) (//The Arcadia//), pastoral romance in prose, interspersed with verse
 * //El peregrino en su patria// (published 1604) (//The Pilgrim in his Own Country//), adaption of Byzantine novels
 * //La Dorotea// (published 1632)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega#List_of_works http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc33.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/spanish/bates001.html
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