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Article: Pilgrimage to Patronage: Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III, 1598-1621.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2003
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Pilgrimage to Patronage: Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III, 1598-1621. By ELIZABETH E. WRIGHT. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 184 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5454-6.
Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was arguably the greatest and undoubtedly the most prolific of Spanish dramatists. His three hundred or so surviving plays demonstrate an unrivalled ability to entertain all levels of Golden Age society. Yet, in spite of his enormous popularity, he had great difficulty in gaining formal recognition because the public theatre in Spain was still only very gradually beginning to acquire literary respectability. So, ...