A Companion to Lope De Vega

by Samson, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781855661684
• ISBN10: 1855661683
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-16
• Publisher: Tamesis Books Ltd

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 ingenios', a 'monstruo de la naturaleza', as he was described by his rival, Miguel de Cervantes. Spain's foremost Golden Age playwright was in addition a major artist in prose and poetry, genres also covered by the Companion. The contributions evaluate current critical debates and issues in Lope de Vega studies, as well as providing new readings of key texts. The volume attempts to do justice to the variety, profusion and originality of Lope's output, and to outline the contours of his reputation as an artist in literary history, as well as firmly contextualising his life and work. The variety of critical perspectives reflects the liveliness of debate surrounding this enduringly popular figure whose drama has recently enjoyed a renaissance in theatres around the globe. ALEXANDER SAMSON lectures in Golden Age literature at University College London and JONATHAN THACKER is a Fellow in Spanish at Merton College, Oxford. Contributors: Frederick De Armas, Elaine Canning, Geraldine Coates, Victor Dixon, Geraint Evans, Tyler Fisher, Edward H. Friedman, Alejandro García Reidy, Esther Gómez, David Johnston, Arantza Mayo, David McGrath, Barbara Mujica, Ali Rizavi, José María Ruano de la Haza, Alexander Samson, Jonathan Thacker, Isabel Torres, Xavier Tubau, Duncan Wheeler.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction: Lope's Life and Work	p. 1
The Man and His World
Lope's Knowledge	p. 15
Lope de Vega and the Theatre in Madrid	p. 29
From Stage to Page: Editorial History and Literary Promotion in Lope de Vega's Partes de comedias	p. 51
Poetry
Imagining Lope's Lyric Poetry in the 'Soneto primero' of the Rimas	p. 63
'Quien en virtud emplea su ingenio ...': Lope de Vega's Religious Poetry	p. 78
Outside In: The Subject(s) at Play in Las rimas humanas y divinas de Tome de Burguillos	p. 91
Drama
The Arte nuevo de hacer comedias: Lope's Dramatic Statement	p. 109
Three Canonical Plays	p. 119
Lope de Vega, the Chronicle-Legend Plays and Collective Memory	p. 131
Sacred Souls and Sinners: Abstinence and Adaptation in Lope's Religious Drama	p. 147
Lope, the Comedian	p. 159
Lope de Vega's Speaking Pictures: Tantalizing Titians and Forbidden Michelangelos in La quinta de Florencia	p. 171
Performing Sanctity: Lope's Use of Teresian Iconography in Santa Teresa de Jesus	p. 183
Masculinities and Honour in Los comendadores de Cordoba	p. 199
El castigo sin venganza and the Ironies of Rhetoric	p. 215
Prose
Life's Pilgrim: El peregrino en su patria	p. 229
Novelas a Marcia Leonarda	p. 244
La Dorotea: A Tragicomedy in Prose	p. 256
The Afterlife
Lope as Icon	p. 269
A Modern Day Fenix: Lope de Vega's Cinematic Revivals	p. 285
Lope in Translation: Opening the Closed Book	p. 300
Translations of Titles	p. 315
Guide to Further Reading	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 369
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