Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (born November 25, 1562 in Madrid, died.August 27, 1635 there) was a Spanish writer, author of 2000 dramas, of which 500 have survived, mostly based on history and folk legends, where tragedy was intertwined with comedy and realism with fantasy.
He masterfully built the intrigue of his works and the portraits of his characters. He renewed the principles of theater during the period when the Baroque prevailed and stage dramas became a more popular field of art. The most important representative of Golden Age literature alongside Calderón, Cervantes and La Cruz. He is also credited with some 3,000 sonnets, 3 novels, 4 novellas, 9 epics, 3 didactic poems and hundreds of comedies (1800 according to Montalban).
He was a friend of writers Francisco de Quevedo and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, and his literary output was the envy of his contemporaries such as Góngora and Cervantes.
We present three comedies of his authorship: "Punishment-Not Revenge," "The King's Best Judge" and "The Star of Seville."
Translated by Julian Swiecicki.
Printed by the printing house of S. Leventhal, Warsaw, 1881.
Format: 205 x 145 mm, 255 pages.
Bookbinding, spine original, minor rubbing and soiling of pages.
