Robert R. Morrison Lope de Vega and the Comedia de Santos PETER LANG New York • Washington, D.C/Baltimore • Boston • Bern Frankfurt am Main • Berlin • Brussels • Vienna • Oxford 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 97 98 104 113 121 127 137 148 157 . . . . 166 175 186 197 207 219 228 240 250 259 x 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 268 275 283 290 296 303 310 Appendix A. A Tentative List of Seventeenth-Century Comedias de Santos 319 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 393 393 405 Authors Titles 411 411 416 Index