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1562–1635 Spain
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) (November 25 1562 – August 27 1635) was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His surviving plays, numbering more than 400, form the foundation of the Spanish dramatic tradition.
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But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
La Dorotea (1632)
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
Fuenteovejuna (1613)
But being women, it is understood
Las Bizarrías de Belisa (1634)
Since after all, it is the crowd who pays,
Lone I muse but feel not lonely,
La Dorotea (1632)
And what shall I say of the poets? Oh, this poor century of ours! In the coming year many of them will make their start, but not one of them is as bad as Cervantes, or idiotic enough to praise Don Quixote.
Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care,
In ancient days they said truth had fled to heaven: attacked on every side, it's not been heard of since. We live in different ages, non-Spaniards and ourselves: they in the age of silver, we in the age of brass.
La Dorotea (1632)
To turn your face from clear proofs of deceit,
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