The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . theTriunfo de la fe en el Japon (1618), and the Doro-tea (1632). The Peregrino is a somewhat tediousromance of adventurous travel. It is interesting,however, for the lyrics and autos (religious plays) con-tained in it, and also for the list of over two hundredof his plays which the author indicates as alreadycomposed. The Triunfo deals with the Xaverianmissions in Japan, and is devout in tone. The Doro-tea is a dramatic novel in form. Begun in
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . theTriunfo de la fe en el Japon (1618), and the Doro-tea (1632). The Peregrino is a somewhat tediousromance of adventurous travel. It is interesting,however, for the lyrics and autos (religious plays) con-tained in it, and also for the list of over two hundredof his plays which the author indicates as alreadycomposed. The Triunfo deals with the Xaverianmissions in Japan, and is devout in tone. The Doro-tea is a dramatic novel in form. Begun in Lopesearly years, it was kept by him throughout his life,and received final embellishments in his old age. Itis practically an autobiography. The real Lope of fame, however, is the dramatist,for it was as dramatist that he dominated the wholeGolden Age (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).According to his own account, he composed 1500comedias, , more than 5,000,000 verses of assonanceand rhyme in all the native and the borrowed Italianmeasures. Besides the comedias he wrote hundreds ofautos, has (prologues, curtain-raisers), and entremeses. Lope db Vega. (interludes). Of the comedias some 500 remain, anrfthey are made the subject of treatment in the greatedition published under the auspices of the SpanishAcademy by Men^ndez y Pelayo. Among the con-venient groupings devised by this eminent scholar arethese: plays based upon matters of the Old and theNew Testament; plays on lives of the saints; playsdealing with legends or devout traditions; mythologi-cal plajs; plays treating of classical history; playStreating of foreign history; plays dealing with the na--tional history; pastoral plays; chivalrous plays; ro^man tic plays; and plays of manners. No attemptmay here be made to give an idea of the nature andsubject-matter of even the more striking amongLopes dramatic masterpieces. It may be said defin-itively that in qualities of style his dramas are defi-cient; they lackthefi
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