First published 2008

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Lope's life and work / Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker -- Lope's knowledge / Victor Dixon -- Lope de Vega and the theatre in Madrid / José María Ruano de la Haza -- From stage to page : editorial history and literary promotion in Lope de Vega's Partes de comedias / Alejandro García Reidy -- Imagining Lope's lyric poetry in the 'Soneto primero' of the Rimas / Tyler Fisher -- 'Quien en virtud emplea su ingenio ... ' : Lope de Vega's religious poetry / Arantza Mayo -- Outside in : the subject(s) at play in Las rimas humanas y divinas de Tomé de Burguillos / Isabel Torres -- The Arte nuevo de hacer comedias : Lope's dramatic statement / Jonathan Thacker -- Three canonical plays / Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker -- Lope de Vega, the chronicle-legend plays and collective memory / Geraldine Coates -- Sacred souls and sinners : abstinence and adaptation in Lope's religious drama / Elaine Canning -- Lope, the comedian / Jonathan Thacker -- Lope de Vega's speaking pictures : tantalizing Titians and forbidden Michelangelos in La quinta de Florencia / Frederick A. De Armas -- Performing sanctity : Lope's use of Teresian iconography in Santa Teresa de Jesús / Barbara Mujica -- Masculinities and honour in Los comendadores de Córdoba / Geraint Evans -- El castigo sin venganza and the ironies of rhetoric / Edward H. Friedman -- Life's pilgrim : el peregrino en su patria / Alexander Samson -- Novelas a Marcia Leonarda / Ali Rizavi -- La Dorotea : a tragicomedy in prose / Xavier Tubau -- Lope as icon / David McGrath -- A modern day Fénix : Lope de Vega's cinematic revivals / Duncan Wheeler -- Lope in translation : opening the closed book / David Johnston -- Translations of titles.