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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.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Golden Age. 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.
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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. Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, nicknamed “Fénix de los Ingenios” (“Phoenix of the Ingenuities”), due to his astonishing literary output, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist, and one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature, alongside Mateo Aléman, Vicente Espinel, Luis de Góngora ...
Biography. Lope de Vega, one of the most important writers in the history of Spanish literature, was a rogue and a womanizer, a loving father and a devout priest, an inquisitor and a poet. Applauded and admired in his time –in which they called him the Fénix de los Ingenios (Phoenix of Wits)— he wrote more than a thousand works, lived to ...
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, 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. After serving with the Spanish Armada, he lived in Madrid, serving as secretary to a series of nobles, including the duke of Sessa (from 1605).
