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5 unusual facts about Lope de Vega


Joseph Pérez

Aside from books, Perez has also written numerous articles, especially in Bulletin Hispanique, such as his well-received notes and introduction to El caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega.

Lope de Vega, El caballero de Olmedo; edición, introducción y notas de Joseph Pérez.

Lope de Vega, Northern Samar

It is named after medieval Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega.

San Ginés, Madrid

Lope de Vega, the dramatist (playwright) and writer, was baptized here, while poet Francisco de Quevedo, was married there.

The Young Admiral

Shirley's source for the plot of his play was Don Lope de Cardona, by Lope de Vega.


Eduard Toldrà

Nobody can be happy (Garcilaso de la Vega); Después que te conocí - Since I've known you (Francisco de Quevedo); Cantarcillo; Madre, unos ojuelos vi (Lope de Vega)

Federico Romero

Although most of their libretti were original stories, several of them were based on works by Spanish playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Manuel Machado, and Jacinto Benavente.

Fuente Obejuna

It was made famous by Lope de Vega's play Fuenteovejuna about the uprising that took place there in 1476.

Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

He probably made the acquaintance of Lope de Vega at the festivals (1620-1622) held to commemorate the beatification and canonization of St Isidore, the patron saint of Madrid.

Juan de Espinosa Medrano

To support his arguments, Espinosa Medrano refers to, among others, Apuleius, Augustine of Hippo, the Bible, Camoens, Cervantes, Erasmus, Faria, Garcilaso, Homer, Lope de Vega, and Pedro de Oña.

Juan van der Hamen

He executed a portrait of Philip IV and worked during the 1620s in a series of portraits of the principal intellectuals and writers of his time, including: Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Jose de Valdivieso, Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Francisco de Rioja.

Ponciano Ponzano

The Lope de Vega Theater, Valladolid by architect Jerónimo de la Gándara, which was inaugurated on 8 December 1861, has a pediment that holds a medallion with the likeness of Lope de Vega sculpted by Ponciano Ponzano.


see also

Fernán Caballero

Born at Morges in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber, a Hamburg merchant, who lived long in Spain, married a native of Cádiz, and is creditably known to students of Spanish literature as the editor of the Floresta de rimas antiguas castellanas (1821–1825), and the Teatro español anterior a Lope de Vega (1832).

Laurent Lamothe

Son of Louis G. Lamothe, a doctor in Spanish literature and the founder of the Lope de Vega Institute, and of Ghislaine Fortuney Lamothe, a painter, Lamothe was born in Port-au-Prince.