- Born
- Died
- Birth nameFélix Lope de Vega Carpio
- Nicknames
- Phoenix of Wits
- Prodigy of Nature
- Félix Lope de Vega was born on November 25, 1562 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer, known for Ballet Tales (1955), Uchitel tantsev (1952) and La moza de cántaro (1954). He was married to Juana de Guardo and Isabel de Urbina. He died on August 27, 1635 in Madrid, Spain.
- SpousesJuana de Guardo(1598 - 1613) (her death)Isabel de Urbina(1588 - 1594) (her death)
- The most prolific Spanish playwright of the Golden Age, he was
nicknamed "The Monster of Nature", because of his incredible ability to
turn out plays quickly. It is assumed he wrote at least 135 of them,
some in as little time as three days. - One of Miguel de Cervantes's greatest rivals in the theatre. Lope de
Vega was a huge success as a playwright; none of Cervantes' plays were
successful onstage. It has been speculated, but never proven, that
Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda, the mysterious and otherwise unknown
author who wrote a pirated sequel to Cervantes' great novel "Don
Quixote", was actually hired by Lope de Vega to do so. Cervantes had
written only what we now know as the first half of "Don Quixote", until
the phony and apparently atrocious sequel inspired him to write the
second half of it (both halves of the Cervantes novel are now nearly
always published in one volume). - He entered the priesthood during the last decades of his life, and when
he died he was given a state funeral that lasted nine full days. - He literally flogged himself to atone for what he believed were his
sins. - He suffered many family misfortunes during his life. One of his
daughters was carried off by a courtier, and another went blind and
insane. His son was accidentally drowned.
- No poet is as bad as Cervantes, nor anyone so foolish as to praise "Don
Quixote".
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