Lope de vega carpio wikipedia

Spanish playwright and poet (1562–1635)

For the municipality in the Philippines, see Lope de Vega, Northern Samar. For the racehorse, see Lope de Vega (horse).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Vega and the second or maternal family name is Carpio.

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (; 25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature.

In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is second to Miguel de Cervantes.^[1] Cervantes said that Lope de Vega was “The Phoenix of Wits” (Fénix de los ingenios) and “Monster of Nature” (Monstruo de naturaleza).^[2]

Lope de Vega renewed the literary life of Spanish theatre when it became mass culture, and with the playwrights Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina defined the characteristics of Spanish Baroque theatre with great insight into the hum