Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
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Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was a New Spanish writer of the Golden Age who cultivated different variants of dramaturgy. His works include the comedy La verdad sospechosa, which is considered a masterpiece of
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Firma de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Grabado de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, by Eduardo Gimeno.
First Part of the Comedies of Don Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, 1628
Lope de Vega
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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is often conside
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…published (in 1628 and 1634), perhaps because some of them had been pirated and previously published with false attributions to his theatrical rival Félix Lope de Vega. After thirteen years of legal service to the crown, he died at Madrid in 1639. Alarcón was the least prolific of all the great dramatists of Spain and…
Portrait by Eugenio Caxés (c. 1627)
Lope's house in Madrid (1610–1635).
Sign at St Sebastian's Church, Madrid marking de Vega's burial
Lope de Vega dressed in cassock. (Madrid, 1902).