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The two years following the return of the Armada, Lope continued to live in Valencia, busied with his literary pursuits, but in 1590, after his two years of banishment from Castile had expired, he moved to Toledo and later to Alba de Tormes and entered the service of the Duke of Alba, grandson of the great soldier, in the capacity of secretary.
Although in his earlier novels he is a pronounced realist, he displays a care-free optimism and a sympathetic humor that distinguish his work from the cynicism of Pardo Bazán and the bitter invectiveness of Blasco Ibáñez, nor has he the seriousness of purpose that characterizes Pérez Galdós. His style is usually direct and simple, but at times it becomes careless or even dull.
Madrid, with all its unsightliness, was one of the most brilliant courts of Europe and attracted to itself the most gifted subjects of the realm.
Por último aparece éste, se suscita un altercado entre el caballero y el pastor, siendo éste rechazado, y exhortándolo su amada á renunciar á su insensata pasión, y termina, después de reconciliarse todos, con dos villancicos sobre los dolores y placeres del amor.» La traducción, ó más bien la imitación inglesa más antigua es del año 1530. V. á Collier, History of Dramatic Poetry, II, 408.
She practiced this theory, however, only in part, for her work partakes of both the romantic and the realistic.
To his plays Lope de Vega has given the general name of comedias, which should not be confused with the word "comedies," for the two are not synonymous. They are divided into three acts or jornadas of somewhat variable length and admit of numerous classifications.
La vida medioeval fue en lo principal tan angustiada por el miedo de los malos espíritus como la de cualesquiera salvaje de nuestro tiempo, dice Robertson en su Short History of Christianity; pues el pueblo había conservado la noción de sus espíritus hostiles, y el diablo cristiano era el Dios de ese reino.
En las Original letters of His Excellency Sir Richard Fanshaw during his embassies in Spain and Portugal: London, 1702, he buscado en vano algunas noticias del teatro español.
The next five years of his life are shrouded in considerable obscurity.
In his satirical articles he attacks the follies and weaknesses of contemporary Spanish life with biting sarcasm and bitter invective: he criticizes not to reform but to crush. There was in him little milk of human kindness, but he was not afraid of man or devil. He tried his hand at the romantic drama and novel with little success.
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