Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: Lope's Life and Work

pp 1-12

Part 1 - The Man And His World

pp 13-14

1 - Lope's Knowledge

pp 15-28

2 - Lope de Vega and the Theatre in Madrid

pp 29-50

3 - From Stage to Page: Editorial History and Literary Promotion in Lope de Vega's Partes de comedias

pp 51-60

Part 2 - Poetry

pp 61-62

4 - Imagining Lope's Lyric Poetry in the ‘Soneto primero’ of the Rimas

pp 63-77

5 - ‘Quien en virtud emplea su ingenio …’: Lope de Vega'sReligious Poetry

pp 78-90

6 - Outside In: The Subject(s) at Play in Las rimas humanas y divinas de Tomé de Burguillos

pp 91-106

Part 3 - Drama

pp 107-108

7 - The Arte nuevo de hacer comedias: Lope's Dramatic Statement

pp 109-118

8 - Three Canonical Plays

pp 119-130

9 - Lope de Vega, the Chronicle-Legend Plays and Collective Memory

pp 131-146

10 - Sacred Souls and Sinners: Abstinence and Adaptation in Lope's Religious Drama

pp 147-158

11 - Lope, the Comedian

pp 159-170

12 - Lope de Vega's Speaking Pictures: Tantalizing Titians and Forbidden Michelangelos in La quinta de Florencia

pp 171-182

13 - Performing Sanctity: Lope's Use of Teresian Iconography in Santa Teresa de Jesús

pp 183-198

14 - Masculinities and Honour in Los comendadores de Córdoba

pp 199-214

15 - El castigo sin venganza and the Ironies of Rhetoric

pp 215-226

Part 4 - Prose

pp 227-228

16 - Life's Pilgrim: El peregrino en su patria

pp 229-243

17 - Novelas a Marcia Leonarda

pp 244-255

18 - La Dorotea: A Tragicomedy in Prose

pp 256-266

Part 5 - The Afterlife

pp 267-268

19 - Lope as Icon

pp 269-284