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.
Vie et carrière
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 Medrano Academy (Poetic Academy of Madrid). He would attend Medrano's Academy from 1616 to 1622, and his relationship with Medrano is evident in his El Laurel de Apolo (1630) in silva VII.
Faits clés
- Born: November 25, 1562 in Madrid, Spain
- Décès : 1635
- Domaine : Literature
Héritage et influence
The influence of Lope de Vega extends far beyond their own lifetime. They fundamentally shaped literature and the written word, and their written works and literary innovations remain foundational to this day.
Bien que disparu en 1635, ses idées continuent d'être étudiées, débattues et prolongées par des chercheurs et praticiens du monde entier.
Lope de Vega demeure l'un des esprits les plus célèbres issus de Spain, témoignage du riche héritage intellectuel de la région.
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