Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega: The Making of La Dorotea

Alan S. Trueblood

Published by Harvard University Press 1974

Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega

The Making of La Dorotea

Alan S. Trueblood

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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Trueblood Alan S. :

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

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1974
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 785
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635. Dorotea.; Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 -- Relationship with women -- Elena Osorio.; Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 -- Criticism and interpretation.

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Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674594401

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1974
ISBN: 9780674594395