Term Paper: Lope De Vega According to Wilson and Goldfarb (2012) Lope Felix De Vega Caprio was considered an important asset to Spanish theatre and high on the list for best dramatist of all time. In the Spanish Golden Age, however, he was the best-known dramatist. In his entire lifetime, Lope De Vega wrote around 1800 plays, give or take a few hundred. The nature of this number is simply an estimate due to not knowing whether or not how many plays he actually wrote. Keeping in mind that Shakespeare wrote a mere number of plays in comparison to Lope De Vega total plays, Shakespeare is one of the few playwrights that surpass Lope’s extraordinary work. Although Lope De Vega wrote copious amounts of plays, the quality of his plays may have …show more content…
To fulfill his religion’s eternal gift of salvation by God, in the same year he was baptized in a church with the name of San Miguel de los Octoes (Hayes 1967). This church is evidently not in existence in modern time. In total, there were three children in Lope’s family, but the second son born to Francisca Fernandez Flores and Félix de Vega (Lope de Vega, n.d.). The foundation of Lope De Vega’s knowledge resulted from his parents who raised him having a liberal education. (Bates, 1906) According to Bates (1906), Lope De Vegas’s family was of low socioeconomic status, so despite their position in society, his parents were still able to give him an education. Years passed and in 1572 at the age of 10 years old, Lope began learning Spanish and Castilian under a man named Vicente Espinel. This man was a known Spanish writer/musician and was famous for La vida del Escudero Marcos de Obregón (Lope de Vega, n.d.). Lope studied under Vicente Espinel until he started attending a Jesuit school in 1574 (Hayes, 1967). While attending this school, Lope learned many things and even may have been apart of his school productions. Specifically, Lope De Vega studied humanities at the Jesuit Imperial College (Lope de Vega, n.d.). In 1574, Lope was 12 years old, which is the age when it is reported that he wrote his first play. In awe of Lope’s personality and …show more content…
Primarily, Lope De Vega wrote comedies and auto sacramentales. Comedies of the Spanish Golden Age were three act serious and comic plays that outlined themes of love and honor emphasizing the unity of time. Auto sacrementales were religious plays that were allegorical and short. Wilson and Goldfarb (2012) reveal how scholars suspected that Lope wrote 15,000 plays, but believe that he only actually authored 800 plays in which 470 have survived. Other scholars believe that this number is actually 2,200 dividing these plays into 1,800 comedies and 400 auto sacramentales (Bates, 1906). Additionally, Britannica online believe that the amount of plays that he wrote was 1,800 total plays, but over 400 were auto sacramentales. Regardless of the speculation of the myriad of plays he wrote, scholars are in accord with the great magnitude. In order for Lope to achieve such a great magnitude, it was estimated that he wrote nearly 20 sheets daily (Lope de Vega, n.d.). By 1603, it is estimated that Lope produced 230 plays and then increasing that number to around 1,500 plays in 1632. An interesting fact about Lope’s productions is that about 100 plays were written and staged in a span of 24 hours, speculated by scholars. Aside from his playwrights, Lope also scribed 21 volumes of poetry and prose. Lope De Vega wrote a variety of
Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898 and died in 1936, he lived through one of the most troubling times of Spain's history. He grew up in Granada, Spain, and enjoyed the lifestyle and countryside of Spain. His father was a wealthy farmer and his mother was a school teacher and encouraged his love of literature, art, and music. He was an extremely talented man. A respectable painter, a fine pianist, and an accomplished writer. He was close friends with some of Spain's most talented people, including musician Manuel de Falla, and painter Salvador Dali. Lorca was a very liberal man who lived un dictatorship for most of his life. However, in 1931 Spain turned into more of a democracy, and was called "The Second Spanish Republic." However, fascist leader, Francisco Franco, was trying to gain control of Spain. Known as a leftist, Lorca was killed by Franco's forces. What are considered to be his three most important plays, referered to as folk tragedies were: Blood Wedding, Yerma, and the House of Bernarda Alba. They really drove home his feelings of the Spanish culture, and, in particular, its treatment of women.
Throughout the history of literature, love has always played a large role in plot because it is a feeling that is universally shared by all humans and has been throughout human history. Spanish culture specifically, tends to be a culture more associated with romance and love than others. It is no surprise that because of this high importance placed on love and romance in Spanish culture that many Spanish authors and playwrights incorporate some form of love into all of their works. Lope De Vega was no exception and was one of the most famous playwrights of his time during the Spanish Golden Age. Something that makes Lope’s plays, specifically some of his unpublished ones such as Fuenteovejuna and Punishment Without Revenge so interesting is not the presence of perfect, harmonious love but rather of corrupt and distorted love within the characters’ relationships in his plays. By writing plays involving imperfect love, Lope comments on the culture around love and marriage of his time and even criticizes it, something Spanish audiences during this time were not ready to handle, which is the reason why some of these plays were never published until recently.
In another attempt to find evidence to confirm or deny that Shakespeare authored his plays, who else could have written the plays must be considered. To illustrate, Steven Dutch writes, “Bacon Fra...
Pedro Calderon de la Barca is a well-known playwright during the early years of theatre in Spain. Calderon’s debut as playwright was Amor, honor y poder. By 1635, Calderon was recognized as the best Spanish dramatist of the 1600s. Calderon initiated the Spanish Golden Age theatre because of his dedicated work to perfecting his craft. He was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays after they were first performed for theatregoers. The famous playwright was also known for his symbolism he inserted in his plays. For example one metaphor he incorporated was making a fall into disgrace, the fall representing dishonor. In addition most of his plays had been influenced by his Jesuit education.
	Edward de Vere of Oxford lived from 1550 to 1604. In the duration of that time, he was a young nobleman, a poet, and a lover of the theatre, but was also probably a great playwright who has yet to receive full credit for the plays he composed. De Vere witnessed first hand the inner workings of nobility. He traveled throughout Europe, completed his education at Cambridge University, studied the law at Gray’s Inn, and had abundant knowledge of historical occurrences and literary works (Russell 4). These are not only elements in the works attributed to William Shakespeare, but also are things which William Shakespeare of Stratford England knew nothing of. Who wrote the Shakespearean sonnets and plays? There is only one answer to this pivotal question – Edward de Vere of Oxford England.
Fear, rage, and revenge, these are the steps of FuenteOvejuna’s freedom from its corrupted tyrant. FunteOvejuna by Lope De Vega is a play that illustrates the power of a flock of sheep; alone, a single sheep is an easy victim, although, together as a flock they can stand tall and proud defending each other. FunteOvejuna is a tragicomedy, combining both funny, joyous rhymes, and Commander Guzman’s reign of terror, claiming one female sheep at a time. The University of Houston production of FunteOvejuna is an excellent play, displaying wonderful examples of great usage of a thrust stage, beautiful music, usage of medieval clothing, wonderful theme, strategic lighting, and conflicting motives.
William Shakespeare was one of the most memorable play writers in history. However, William may have been given false credit. Many people believe that he may not author the plays. In fact, there is much evidence that shows that he did not author the plays.
Lope de Vega’s play touches upon several key components and ideas that were brought up in many of the other stories read throughout the semester. This included the role of gender and how men and women are viewed differently in the Spaniard town of Fuenteovejuna. Another topic included the importance of family, love, and relationships and their connection on loyalty, trust, and personal beliefs. The last major influence found in other literature and in Fuenteovejuna, were the political and religious references made throughout the play. Even though Lope de Vega didn’t make these views obvious, the reader could still pick up on their connotation and the references made towards these specific ideas. With all of this in mind, each of these components played an important role in each civilization read, and even over 1,000 years later it continues to be a social topic as well as a large part of the culture. The only difference a reader or scholar could make for this particular piece of literature is its authenticity and how it was based on a true event. Regardless, new views on power and how one obtain it become apparent through the dialogue between characters like Laurencia and the Commander.
In my opinion I do not believe that Shakespeare wrote all those plays because the man couldn’t even sign his own and I don’t think he ever existed. There are many facts that back up my opinion. One is where Mark Twain once said that only a riverboat captain can handle riverboat slang, and there were some things that you have to just experience. “Where would Shakespeare, have learned the lawyer slang, court slang, soldier slang, and all the terminology that fills the plays?”1 1Some other facts that make me believe that Shakespeare never wrote these plays is that no plays, no poems, and not a single letter Shakespeare’s own handwriting has ever been found. The only examples of his handwriting yet discovered are six signatures, each one spelled differently. Another thing is that one by one, art experts doubt that he posed for any of the portraits of himself.
He wrote many different works as in plays and poems. “In addition to his thirty-seven plays, Shakespeare wrote an innovative collection of sonnets and two long narrativ...
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz was born in Anaheim, California in 1919. She was abandoned by her father when she was 9 and lost her mother a few years later. She moved to live with her grandparents, she was raised by her grandmother after her grandfather died. She grew up traveling around to farm. Moving from places to places, spent most of her life working, she was in and out of school and only got to a sixth grade education. Later in her life, in 1938, she married her husband at the age of 19. From 1939-1947 she had six children, she lost a baby daughter to malnutrition, lack of adequate sanitation, and inferior health care. In her early forties, she found her life dramatically
Stratfordians believe that William Shakespeare was the true writer of many great plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. This belief may be true, but there are many pieces of opposing evidence showing that he did not actually write these plays or poems. From the lack of information about his life, to his lack of education, there is almost no true reason that he could have written such amazing plays. There are many pieces of evidence showing that an earl named Edward De Vere wrote these plays. De Vere was a well educated nobleman with a degree from Oxford University. He had knowledge of the places most plays were set, and had a perfectly wide enough range of knowledge to be able to have written these plays. Because playwriting was considered
William Shakespeare born in 1564 is famously known as one of the most influential writers of all time; he conjured up many breathtaking plays during his lifetime. One of Shakespeare most successful plays was the tragedy Macbeth. Public and critical acclaim quickly followed and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular play writer of all time. In this famous play Shakespeare has portrayed Macbeth as respectable noble man however he is motivated to go down the path of dishonesty and crime.
Although scholars and literary critics continue to question the true authorship of his plays long after his death in 1616, William Shakespeare is still considered one of the greatest writers of all time. Throughout Shakespeare’s career, up until the fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre in 1613, many people believe that Shakespeare wrote thirty-six full length plays (Literary Cavalcade).
Shakespeare has been a part of the American Society for many years. Compared to other Authors, he has a different style of writing but within his own writings, they are all very much alike. He has written many plays including Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare was a man who wrote plays that followed the same literary conventions. These conventions included tragic hero, fallacy, irony, and also suspense.