Lope de Vega (Q444)

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Spanish playwright, poet and novelist, and one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature.

Spanish playwright, poet and novelist, and one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature.
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Lope de Vega
Spanish playwright, poet and novelist, and one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature.

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    25 November 1562
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    27 August 1635Gregorian
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    He is the Spanish Golden century most important playwright along with Calderón de la Barca and one of the most prolific ones from universal literature. He renewed Spanish’s theatrical formulas from the Golden Century with an all new dramatic formula. (English)
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    In said formula, he mixed both what is tragic and what is comic and he broke the three unities rule advocated by the Italian poetic school: unity of action (it should tell just one story), unity of time (what is told should be constrained to a period of 24 hour or little longer) and unity of place (the action should only take place at a single enclave and surrounding areas). (English)
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    He’s comedies keep being staged. (English)
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