by Félix Lope de Vega · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467023220
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«El caballero de Olmedo» is the play by Félix Lope de Vega, published by Austral in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
The play is based on the death in 1521 of don Juan de Vivero, a knight of Olmedo, and weaves love and death into a plot where Lope de Vega combines resources of Golden Age theater with poetic forms of his time. The initially luminous tone shifts towards an ending that leaves a trace of skepticism about the vanity of existence.
Edition by Ignacio Arellano and Juan Manuel Escudero, with a reading guide; volume 5 of the Austral Clásica collection.
A work commonly read in high school, useful for those studying Golden Age theater and classic Spanish literature.
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio 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 often considered second only to Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes said that Lope de Vega was “The Phoenix of Wits” and “Monster of Nature”.
