Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega

Alan S. Trueblood

Alan S. Trueblood

Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega

The Making of La Dorotea

Harvard University Press | 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594401

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This is a major book about one of the luminaries of the golden age of Spanish literature. In spite of his great reputation, Lope de Vega is to most of us merely a name, in part because of the prodigious quantity and variety of his plays and other writings in verse and prose. Alan Trueblood's book does not pretend to survey all of Lope's works or to touch on all the events of his colorful career; yet it probes the mind and heart, and art, of Lope as no other study in English has done.

Trueblood pursues the artistic consequences of a key experience in Lope's life, the four-year love affair with Elena Osorio that terminated violently in 1587. (The rejected Lope, age twenty-five, wrote slanderous verses about Elena's family and associates, was jailed on charges of libel, and was sentenced to ten years' exile.) Notwithstanding his subsequent marriages and liaisons, his mounting literary fame in Spain and abroad, and his eventual dedication to the Church as a priest, for forty-five years this experience reverberated intermittently in his writings, culminating in the great prose dialogue La Dorotea. Trueblood's demonstration of the increasing objectivity and sympathy with which Lope treats Elena/ Dorotea--in ballads, in sonnets, in plays, in La Dorotea--is psychologically as well as aesthetically revealing.

Trueblood provides by far the fullest analysis and elucidation of Lope's masterpiece, La Dorotea, that it has ever received--and in the process he probes the nature of literary creativity, the symbiosis between personal experience and artistic expression, in contexts going well beyond Lope and his age. Because the book will appeal to many readers who do not know Spanish, all quotations have been translated into English.

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Alan S. Trueblood, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University, is the author of Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
Preface Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	ix
Abbreviations Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xii
I. Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
II. Lope and Elena Osorio Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	21
III. The Artistic Ballads: Moorish and Pastoral Masks Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	48
IV. Thematic Trends in Sonnet Cycles Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	86
V. Belardo el Furioso Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	115
VI. The Years Between Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	141
VII. History and Poetry in La Dorotea Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	202
VIII. Action and Psychology Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	267
IX. Dramatic and Lyric Aspects of Form Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	324
X. Style and Literary Stylization Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	379
XI. Desengaño Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	529
XII. The Meaning of La Dorotea Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	603
Principal Works Cited, Notes, Index
Principal Works Cited Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	635
Notes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	651
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	769

Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega

The Making of La Dorotea

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