Lope de Vega and the Comedia de Santos

Robert R. Morrison
Lope de Vega and the
Comedia de Santos
PETER LANG
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Chapter 1. Two Prominent Forces in Seventeenth-Century Spanish
Life: Religion and Lope de Vega
5
Chapter 2. The Saint's Play in Spain
25
Chapter 3. Saints and Sainthood
35
Chapter 4. Dramatic Precursors of the Comedia de Santos
49
Chapter 5. Non-Dramatic Sources of the Comedia de Santos
83
Chapter 6. The Saint According to Lope
91
Chapter 7. Lope's Twenty-Five Plays about Saints: Summaries and
Comments
San Segundo
La bienaventurada madre Santa Teresa de Jesus
La gran columna fogosa, San Basilio Magno
Los locos por el cielo
El nifio inocente de La Guardia
El rustico del cielo
La devocion del rosario
San Isidro, labrador de Madrid
El santo negro Rosambuco de la ciudad de Palermo
Juan de Dios y Anton Martin
Lofingido verdadero
El cardenal de Belen
El divino africano
Barldn y Josafd
El serafin humano, San Francisco
La madre de la mejor
San Diego de Alcald
San Nicolas de Tolentino
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Contents
El nacimiento de Cristo
El capelldn de la Virgen, San Ildefonso
La limpieza no manchada
La ninez de San Isidro
Lajuventud de San Isidro
La ninez del padre Rojas
La vida de San Pedro Nolasco
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Appendix A. A Tentative List of Seventeenth-Century
Comedias de Santos
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Appendix B. The Rouanet Collection
357
Appendix C. Potential Sixteenth-Century Dramatic Sources of
the Comedia de Santos
Appendix D. Potential Sixteenth-Century Non-Dramatic Sources
365
of the Comedia de Santos
373
Appendix E. The Saints in Lope de Vega's Comedias de Santos
381
Notes
383
Bibliography
Works Cited
Selected Bibliography
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Authors
Titles
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Index