History of Spanish Literature, vol. 2 (of 3)

Drama opposed by the Church 3 Inquisition interferes 4 Religious Dramas continued 4 Secular Plays, Castillejo, Oliva 5 Juan de Paris 6 Jaume de Huete 8 Agostin Ortiz 9 Popular D...

Followers of Lope de Rueda 25 Alonso de la Vega, Cisneros 25 Attempts at Seville 26 Juan de la Cueva 26 Romero de Zepeda 27 Attempts at Valencia 28 Cristóval de Virues 28 Transl...

Religious Element in Spanish Literature 40 Luis de Leon 40 His Birth and Training 40 Professor at Salamanca 41 His Version of Solomon’s Song 41 His Persecution for it 42 His Nam...

His Family 52 His Birth 53 His Education 54 His first published Verses 54 Goes to Italy 55 Becomes a Soldier 55 Fights at Lepanto 56 And at Tunis 57 Is captured at Sea 57 Is a S...

He goes to Seville 77 His Life there 78 Asks Employment in America 78 Short Poems 79 Tradition from La Mancha 80 He goes to Valladolid 81 First Part of Don Quixote 82 He goes to...

His Persiles y Sigismunda 100 His Don Quixote, First Part 103 His Purpose in writing it 104 Passion for Romances of Chivalry 105 He destroys it 107 Character of the First Part 1...

His Birth 120 His Education 121 A Soldier 123 Patronized by Manrique 123 Bachelor at Alcalá 123 His Dorothea 124 Secretary to Alva 124 His Arcadia 125 Marries 127 Is exiled for...

His Relations with the Church 146 His Pastores de Belen 146 Various Works 148 Beatification of San Isidro 149 Canonization of San Isidro 153 Tomé de Burguillos 154 His Gatomachi...

His Miscellaneous Works 164 Their Character 165 His earliest Dramas 166 At Valencia 167 State of the Theatre 168 El Verdadero Amante 169 El Pastoral de Jacinto 169 His Moral Pla...

Comedias Heróicas 192 Roma Abrasada 193 El Príncipe Perfeto 195 El Nuevo Mundo 199 El Castigo sin Venganza 202 La Estrella de Sevilla 205 National Subjects 206 Various Plays 207...

Dramas on Common Life 210 El Cuerdo en su Casa 211 La Donzella Teodor 212 Cautivos de Argel 214 Three Classes of Secular Plays 215 The Influence of the Church 216 Religious Play...

Variety in the Forms of his Dramas 239 Characteristics of all of them 239 Personages 240 Dialogue 240 Irregular Plots 240 History disregarded 241 Geography 242 Morals 242 Dramat...

Birth and Training 255 Exile 256 Public Service in Sicily 256 In Naples 257 Persecution at Home 257 Marries 257 Persecution again 258 His Sufferings and Death 259 Variety of his...

Madrid the Capital 276 Its Effect on the Drama 277 Damian de Vegas 277 Francisco de Tarrega 278 His Enemiga Favorable 279 Gaspar de Aguilar 280 His Mercader Amante 280 His Suert...

Tirso de Molina 308 His Dramas 308 His Burlador de Sevilla 309 His Vergonzoso en Palacio 312 His Theory of the Drama 314 Antonio Mira de Mescua 315 His Dramas and Poems 315 Jose...

Birth and Family 333 Education 334 Festivals of San Isidro 335 Serves as a Soldier 336 Writes for the Stage 336 Patronized by Philip the Fourth 336 Rebellion in Catalonia 337 Co...

Characteristics of his Drama 360 Trusts to the Story 361 Sacrifices much to it 362 Dramatic Interest strong 363 Love, Jealousy, and Honor 364 Amar despues de la Muerte 364 El Mé...

Comedias de Capa y Espada 381 Antes que todo es mi Dama 382 La Dama Duende 383 La Vanda y la Flor 385 Various Sources of Calderon’s Plots 389 Castilian Tone everywhere 389 Exagg...

Most Brilliant Period 403 Agustin Moreto 403 His Dramas 404 Figuron Plays 405 El Lindo Don Diego 405 El Desden con el Desden 406 Francisco de Roxas 408 His Dramas 408 Del Rey ab...

Nationality of the Drama 430 The Autor of a Company 431 Relations with the Dramatists 432 Actors, their Number 433 The most distinguished 434 Their Character and hard Life 435 E...

Old Epic Tendencies 454 Revived in the Time of Charles the Fifth 455 Hierónimo Sempere 455 Luis de Çapata 456 Diego Ximenez de Ayllon 457 Hippólito Sanz 457 Alfonso Fernandez 45...

Subjects from Antiquity 481 Boscan, Mendoza, Silvestre 481 Montemayor, Villegas 481 Perez, Romero de Cepeda 482 Fábulas, Góngora 483 Villamediana, Pantaleon 483 Moncayo, Villalp...

Early Lyric Tendency 505 Italian School of Boscan 505 National School 506 Lomas de Cantorál 506 Francisco de Figueroa 507 Vicente Espinel 507 Montemayor 507 Barahona de Soto, Ru...

The Argensolas 536 Lupercio 536 Bartolomé 537 Their Poetry 538 Juan de Jauregui 539 His Orfeo 540 His Aminta 540 His Lyrical Poetry 541 Estévan Manuel de Villegas 542 Imitates A...

THEATRE.--INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH AND THE INQUISITION.--MYSTERIES.--CASTILLEJO, OLIVA, JUAN DE PARIS, AND OTHERS.--POPULAR DEMANDS FOR DRAMATIC LITERATURE.--LOPE DE RUEDA.--HIS...

THEATRE.--FOLLOWERS OF LOPE DE RUEDA.--ALONSO DE LA VEGA.-- CISNEROS.--SEVILLE.--MALARA.--CUEVA.--ZEPEDA.--VALENCIA.--VIRUES.-- TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS OF THE ANCIENT CLASSI...

It should not be forgotten, that, while we have gone over the beginnings of the Italian school and of the existing theatre, we have had little occasion to notice one distinctive...

CERVANTES.--HIS FAMILY.--EDUCATION.--FIRST VERSES.--LIFE IN ITALY.--A SOLDIER IN THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO.--A CAPTIVE IN ALGIERS.--RETURNS HOME.--SERVICE IN PORTUGAL.--LIFE IN MADR...

CERVANTES NEGLECTED.--AT SEVILLE.--HIS FAILURE.--ASKS EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA.--AT VALLADOLID.--HIS TROUBLES.--PUBLISHES THE FIRST PART OF DON QUIXOTE.--HE REMOVES TO MADRID.--HIS...

CERVANTES.--HIS PERSILES AND SIGISMUNDA, AND ITS CHARACTER.--HIS DON QUIXOTE.--CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH IT WAS WRITTEN.--ITS PURPOSE AND GENERAL PLAN.--PART FIRST.--AVELLANEDA....

“Sois Castellano?” me preguntó en su lengua Portuguesa. “No, Señora,” le respondí yo, “sino forastero, y bien lejos de esta tierra.” “Pues aunque fuerades mil veces Castellano,”...

Other parallel passages might be cited; but it should not be forgotten, that there is one striking difference between the two; for that, whereas the Persiles is a book of great...

LOPE DE VEGA.--HIS EARLY LIFE.--A SOLDIER.--HE WRITES THE ARCADIA.--MARRIES.--HAS A DUEL.--FLIES TO VALENCIA.--DEATH OF HIS WIFE.--HE SERVES IN THE ARMADA.--RETURNS TO MADRID.--...

LOPE DE VEGA, CONTINUED.--HIS RELATIONS WITH THE CHURCH.--HIS PASTORES DE BELEN.--HIS RELIGIOUS POEMS.--HIS CONNECTION WITH THE FESTIVALS AT THE BEATIFICATION AND CANONIZATION O...

LOPE DE VEGA, CONTINUED.--CHARACTER OF HIS MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.--HIS DRAMAS.--HIS LIFE AT VALENCIA.--HIS MORAL PLAYS.--HIS SUCCESS AT MADRID.--VAST NUMBER OF HIS DRAMAS.--THEIR...

The dramas of Lope de Vega that belong to the next class were called “Comedias Heróicas,” or “Comedias Historiales,”--Heroic or Historical Dramas. The chief differences between...

The first act, which comes down to the murder of Claudius by Nero and Agrippina, contains the old jest of the Emperor asking why his wife does not come to dinner, after he had p...

LOPE DE VEGA, CONTINUED.--DRAMAS THAT ARE FOUNDED ON THE MANNERS OF COMMON LIFE.--THE WISE MAN AT HOME.--THE DAMSEL THEODORA.--CAPTIVES IN ALGIERS.--INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH ON T...

LOPE DE VEGA, CONTINUED.--HIS CHARACTERISTICS AS A DRAMATIC WRITER.--HIS STORIES, CHARACTERS, AND DIALOGUE.--HIS DISREGARD OF RULES, OF HISTORICAL TRUTH, AND MORAL PROPRIETY.--H...

QUEVEDO.--HIS LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICE, AND PERSECUTIONS.--HIS WORKS, PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED.--HIS POETRY.--THE BACHILLER FRANCISCO DE LA TORRE.--HIS PROSE WORKS, RELIGIOUS AND D...

The want of a great capital, as a common centre for letters and literary men, was long felt in Spain. Until the time of Ferdinand and Isabella, the country, broken into separate...

DRAMA, CONTINUED.--TIRSO DE MOLINA.--MIRA DE MESCUA.--VALDIVIELSO.-- ANTONIO DE MENDOZA.--RUIZ DE ALARCON.--LUIS DE BELMONTE, AND OTHERS.-- EL DIABLO PREDICADOR.--OPPOSITION OF...

CALDERON.--HIS LIFE AND VARIOUS WORKS.--DRAMAS FALSELY ATTRIBUTED TO HIM.--HIS SACRAMENTAL AUTOS.--HOW REPRESENTED.--THEIR CHARACTER.--THE DIVINE ORPHEUS.--GREAT POPULARITY OF S...

In a life thus extending to above fourscore years, nearly the whole of which was devoted to letters, Calderon produced a large number of works. Except, however, a panegyric on t...

CALDERON, CONTINUED.--HIS SECULAR PLAYS.--DIFFICULTY OF CLASSIFYING THEM.--THEIR PRINCIPAL INTEREST.--NATURE OF THEIR PLOTS.--LOVE SURVIVES LIFE.--PHYSICIAN OF HIS OWN HONOR.--P...

CALDERON, CONTINUED.--COMEDIAS DE CAPA Y ESPADA.--FIRST OF ALL MY LADY.--FAIRY LADY.--THE SCARF AND THE FLOWER, AND OTHERS.--HIS DISREGARD OF HISTORY.--ORIGIN OF THE EXTRAVAGANT...

Perhaps the very extravagance of such representations made them comparatively harmless. It was, in the days of the Austrian dynasty, so incredible that a brother should put his...

DRAMA AFTER CALDERON.--MORETO.--COMEDIAS DE FIGURON.--ROXAS.--PLAYS BY MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR.--CUBILLO.--LEYBA.--CANCER.--ENRIQUEZ GOMEZ.--SIGLER.--ZARATE.--BARRIOS.--DIAMANTE.--...

CHARACTER OF THE SPANISH DRAMA.--THE AUTOR, OR MANAGER.--THE WRITERS FOR THE STAGE.--THE ACTORS, THEIR NUMBER, SUCCESS, AND CONDITION.--PERFORMANCES BY DAYLIGHT.--THE STAGE.--TH...

[742] Relation du Voyage d’Espagne, par Madame la Contesse d’Aulnoy, La Haye, 1693, 18mo, Tom. III. p. 21,--the same who wrote beautiful fairy tales. She was there in 1679-80; b...

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE POEMS.--SEMPERE.--ÇAPATA.--AYLLON.--SANZ.-- FERNANDEZ.--ESPINOSA.--COLOMA.--ERCILLA AND HIS ARAUCANA, WITH OSORIO’S CONTINUATION.--OÑA.--GABRIEL LASSO DE LA...

NARRATIVE POEMS ON SUBJECTS FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY.--BOSCAN, MENDOZA, SILVESTRE, MONTEMAYOR, VILLEGAS, PEREZ, CEPEDA, GÓNGORA, VILLAMEDIANA, PANTALEON, AND OTHERS.--NARRATIVE...

LYRIC POETRY.--ITS CONDITION FROM THE TIME OF BOSCAN AND GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA.--CANTORÁL, FIGUEROA, ESPINEL, MONTEMAYOR, BARAHONA DE SOTO, RUFO, DAMIAN DE VEGAS, PADILLA, MALDO...

LYRIC POETRY, CONTINUED.--THE ARGENSOLAS, JAUREGUI, ESTÉVAN VILLEGAS, BALBUENA, BARBADILLO, POLO, ROJAS, RIOJA, ESQUILACHE, MENDOZA, REBOLLEDO, QUIROS, EVIA, INEZ DE LA CRUZ, SO...