THE LIFE OF 

 LOPE DE VEGA 



The Great Spanish Dramatist 



BY HUGO A. RENNERT 



PROFESSOR OF ROMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE IN THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 



HP HERE has been no life of Lope de Vega published 

 in English since that by Lord Holland nearly 

 loo years ago. 



Professor Rennert has been able to take advantage of 

 the labours of all previous workers in the same field, and 

 has in addition been fortunate above all his predecessors 

 in that documents were published for the first time within 

 the last few years by Senor Perez Pastor, which threw a 

 flood of light on many dark points in Lope's career. 



He has made full use of all fresh data, and has 

 endeavoured to record every known fact in the life of the 

 poet. His biography is therefore the most thorough yet 

 published, and in the opinion of Mr. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 

 the leading English authority, his biography is the 

 standard life. It is consequently indispensable to every 

 important library. 



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