One poem by this man contains the command "depart the earth, go entertain the winds/and thus to your true home shall you retire" and declares that "you steal the labyrinth from Crete," a topic revisited in a longer work.
One poem by this man contains the command "depart the earth, go entertain the winds/and thus to your true home shall you retire" and declares that "you steal the labyrinth from Crete," a topic revisited in a longer work. Travels may have inspired his play about Cyrus the Great, Against Bravery there is no Misfortune, or even his biblical The Beautiful Esther, though contemporary informed The Dance Teacher, The Stupid Lady, and his "cloak and dagger" works. In his best-known work, Mengo, Esteban, Jacinta, Laurencia, and Frondosa are abused by The Commander in the titular town before the townspeople rise up and murder him, an event likely inspired by the abduction of this author's daughter by a nobleman. This author of The Dog in the Manger wrote the critical tract The New Art of Writing Plays, which served as an inspiration for successors like Tirso de Molina and Calderon de la Barca. FTP, identify this Spanish Golden Age writer of Fuente Ovejuna as well as about 1,999 other dramatic works.
One poem by this man contains the command "depart the earth, go entertain the winds/and thus to your true home shall you retire" and declares that "you steal the labyrinth from Crete," a topic revisited in a longer work.
{Lope} de Vega