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Title

A companion to Lope de Vega / edited by Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker.

Publication

Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Samson, Alexander
• Thacker, Jonathan

Description

xiv, 384 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

'A Companion to Lope de Vega' brings together work by leading international scholars on the life and writing of Lope de Vega Carpio, the 'fénix de los ingenious', a 'monstruo de la naturaleza', as he was described by his rival, Miguel de Cervantes.

Series Statement

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 260

Uniform Title

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías 260.

Subject

• Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635
• 1500-1700
• 1550-1600
• 1600-1650
• Authors, Spanish > Classical period, 1500-1700 > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Textbooks (form)
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-368) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lope's life and work / Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker -- Lope's knowledge / Victor Dixon -- Lope de Vega and the theatre in Madrid / José María Ruano de la Haza -- From stage to page : editorial history and literary promotion in Lope de Vega's Partes de comedias / Alejandro García Reidy -- Imagining Lope's lyric poetry in the 'Soneto primero' of the Rimas / Tyler Fisher -- 'Quien en virtud emplea su ingenio ... ' : Lope de Vega's religious poetry / Arantza Mayo -- Outside in : the subject(s) at play in Las rimas humanas y divinas de Tomé de Burguillos / Isabel Torres -- The Arte nuevo de hacer comedias : Lope's dramatic statement / Jonathan Thacker -- Three canonical plays / Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker -- Lope de Vega, the chronicle-legend plays and collective memory / Geraldine Coates -- Sacred souls and sinners : abstinence and adaptation in Lope's religious drama / Elaine Canning -- Lope, the comedian / Jonathan Thacker -- Lope de Vega's speaking pictures : tantalizing Titians and forbidden Michelangelos in La quinta de Florencia / Frederick A. De Armas -- Performing sanctity : Lope's use of Teresian iconography in Santa Teresa de Jesús / Barbara Mujica -- Masculinities and honour in Los comendadores de Córdoba / Geraint Evans -- El castigo sin venganza and the ironies of rhetoric / Edward H. Friedman -- Life's pilgrim : el peregrino en su patria / Alexander Samson -- Novelas a Marcia Leonarda / Ali Rizavi -- La Dorotea : a tragicomedy in prose / Xavier Tubau -- Lope as icon / David McGrath -- A modern day Fénix : Lope de Vega's cinematic revivals / Duncan Wheeler -- Lope in translation : opening the closed book / David Johnston -- Translations of titles.

ISBN

• 9781855661684 (hbk.)
• 1855661683 (hbk.)

OCLC

271769212

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library