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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 1562 – 27 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.
Lope de Vega (born Nov. 25, 1562, Madrid, Spain—died Aug. 27, 1635, Madrid) was an outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, author of as many as 1,800 plays and several hundred shorter dramatic pieces, of which 431 plays and 50 shorter pieces are extant.
Lope de Vega, in full Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, (born Nov. 25, 1562, Madrid, Spain—died Aug. 27, 1635, Madrid), Spanish playwright, the outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
Lope de Vega (also Félix Lope de Vega Carpio or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) (November 25, 1562 – August 27, 1635) was a playwright and poet of the Siglo de Oro, or Golden Age of Spanish literature.
Lope de Vega - Plays, Poetry, Novels: Vega became identified as a playwright with the comedia, a comprehensive term for the new drama of Spain’s Golden Age. Vega’s productivity for the stage, however exaggerated by report, remains phenomenal.
Lope de Vega is regarded as the true innovator of Spanish theater and a modernizer of the comedy genre. His texts, which ultimately amounted to more than 1,500 plays and three thousand poems, continued to be published after his death.
Lope de Vega was a Spanish Golden Age poet and playwright. One of the most prolific writers in history, he was said to have written 2,200 plays (an average of nearly one per week for his entire adult life), though fewer than 400 survive today. [1]
