CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME SECOND.


SECOND PERIOD.
(Continued.)

CHAPTER VII.
Theatre in the Time of Charles the Fifth, and during the First Part of the Reign of Philip the Second.
[Drama opposed by the Church]3
[Inquisition interferes]4
[Religious Dramas continued]4
[Secular Plays, Castillejo, Oliva]5
[Juan de Paris]6
[Jaume de Huete]8
[Agostin Ortiz]9
[Popular Drama attempted]9
[Lope de Rueda]9
[His Four Comedias]11
[His Two Pastoral Colloquies]13
[His Ten Pasos]16
[His Two Dialogues in Verse]17
[His insufficient Apparatus]18
[He begins the Popular Drama]19
[Juan de Timoneda]20
[His Cornelia]21
[His Menennos]21
[His Blind Beggars]22
CHAPTER VIII.
Theatre, continued.
[Followers of Lope de Rueda]25
[Alonso de la Vega, Cisneros]25
[Attempts at Seville]26
[Juan de la Cueva]26
[Romero de Zepeda]27
[Attempts at Valencia]28
[Cristóval de Virues]28
[Translations from the Ancients]30
[Villalobos, Oliva]30
[Boscan, Abril]30
[Gerónimo Bermudez]30
[Lupercio de Argensola]32
[Spanish Drama to this Time]34
[The Attempts to form it few]35
[The Apparatus imperfect]36
[Connection with the Hospitals]37
[Court-yards in Madrid]37
[Dramas have no uniform Character]37
[A National Drama demanded]39
CHAPTER IX.
Luis de Leon.
[Religious Element in Spanish Literature]40
[Luis de Leon]40
[His Birth and Training]40
[Professor at Salamanca]41
[His Version of Solomon’s Song]41
[His Persecution for it]42
[His Names of Christ]43
[His Perfect Wife]45
[His Exposition of Job]45
[His Death]46
[His Poetry]47
[His Translations]48
[His Original Poetry]49
[His Character]51
CHAPTER X.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
[His Family]52
[His Birth]53
[His Education]54
[His first published Verses]54
[Goes to Italy]55
[Becomes a Soldier]55
[Fights at Lepanto]56
[And at Tunis]57
[Is captured at Sea]57
[Is a Slave at Algiers]57
[His cruel Captivity]58
[His Release]59
[Serves in Portugal]61
[His Galatea]61
[His Marriage]64
[His Literary Friends]65
[His First Dramas]65
[His Trato de Argel]67
[His Numantia]70
[Character of these Dramas]77
CHAPTER XI.
Cervantes, continued.
[He goes to Seville]77
[His Life there]78
[Asks Employment in America]78
[Short Poems]79
[Tradition from La Mancha]80
[He goes to Valladolid]81
[First Part of Don Quixote]82
[He goes to Madrid]82
[Relations with Poets there]82
[With Lope de Vega]82
[His Novelas]84
[His Viage al Parnaso]88
[His Adjunta]89
[His Eight Comedias]90
[His Eight Entremeses]94
[Second Part of Don Quixote]97
[His Sickness]98
[His Death]99
CHAPTER XII.
Cervantes, concluded.
[His Persiles y Sigismunda]100
[His Don Quixote, First Part]103
[His Purpose in writing it]104
[Passion for Romances of Chivalry]105
[He destroys it]107
[Character of the First Part]108
[Avellaneda’s Second Part]109
[Its Character]110
[Cervantes’s Satire on it]111
[His own Second Part]112
[Its Character]113
[Don Quixote and Sancho]114
[Blemishes in the Don Quixote]116
[Its Merits and Fame]118
[Claims of Cervantes]119
CHAPTER XIII.
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio.
[His Birth]120
[His Education]121
[A Soldier]123
[Patronized by Manrique]123
[Bachelor at Alcalá]123
[His Dorothea]124
[Secretary to Alva]124
[His Arcadia]125
[Marries]127
[Is exiled for a Duel]127
[Life at Valencia]128
[Death of his Wife]128
[Establishes himself at Madrid]128
[Serves in the Armada]129
[Marries again]131
[His Children]132
[Death of his Sons]132
[Death of his Wife]132
[Becomes a Priest]133
[His Poem of San Isidro]134
[His Hermosura de Angélica]137
[His Dragontea]140
[His Peregrino en su Patria]142
[His Jerusalen Conquistada]143
CHAPTER XIV.
Lope de Vega, continued.
[His Relations with the Church]146
[His Pastores de Belen]146
[Various Works]148
[Beatification of San Isidro]149
[Canonization of San Isidro]153
[Tomé de Burguillos]154
[His Gatomachia]154
[Various Works]155
[His Novelas]156
[He acts as an Inquisitor]157
[His Religious Poetry]158
[His Corona Trágica]159
[His Laurel de Apolo]160
[His Dorotea]160
[His Last Works]161
[His Illness and Death]162
[His Burial]162
CHAPTER XV.
Lope de Vega, continued.
[His Miscellaneous Works]164
[Their Character]165
[His earliest Dramas]166
[At Valencia]167
[State of the Theatre]168
[El Verdadero Amante]169
[El Pastoral de Jacinto]169
[His Moral Plays]170
[The Soul’s Voyage]171
[The Prodigal Son]172
[The Marriage of the Soul]173
[The Theatre at Madrid]174
[His published Dramas]175
[Their great Number]175
[His Dramatic Foundation]177
[Varieties in his Plays]178
[Comedias de Capa y Espada]179
[Their Character]179
[Their Number]180
[El Azero de Madrid]181
[La Noche de San Juan]184
[Festival of the Count Duke]184
[La Boba para los Otros]189
[El Premio del Bien Hablar]190
[Various Plays]190
CHAPTER XVI.
Lope de Vega, continued.
[Comedias Heróicas]192
[Roma Abrasada]193
[El Príncipe Perfeto]195
[El Nuevo Mundo]199
[El Castigo sin Venganza]202
[La Estrella de Sevilla]205
[National Subjects]206
[Various Plays]207
[Character of the Heroic Drama]207
CHAPTER XVII.
Lope de Vega, continued.
[Dramas on Common Life]210
[El Cuerdo en su Casa]211
[La Donzella Teodor]212
[Cautivos de Argel]214
[Three Classes of Secular Plays]215
[The Influence of the Church]216
[Religious Plays]217
[Plays founded on the Bible]217
[El Nacimiento de Christo]218
[Other such Plays]221
[Comedias de Santos]223
[Several such Plays]224
[San Isidro de Madrid]225
[Autos Sacramentales]226
[Festival of the Corpus Christi]227
[Number of Lope’s Autos]229
[Their Form]230
[Their Loas]230
[Their Entremeses]231
[The Autos themselves]232
[Lope’s Secular Entremeses]234
[Popular Tone of his Drama]236
[His Eclogues]237
CHAPTER XVIII.
Lope de Vega, concluded.
[Variety in the Forms of his Dramas]239
[Characteristics of all of them]239
[Personages]240
[Dialogue]240
[Irregular Plots]240
[History disregarded]241
[Geography]242
[Morals]242
[Dramatized Novelle]243
[Comic Underplot]243
[Graciosos]244
[Poetical Style]245
[Various Measures]246
[Ballad Poetry in them]247
[Popular Air of every thing]249
[His Success at home]249
[His Success abroad]250
[His large Income]251
[Still he is poor]251
[Great Amount of his Works]252
[Spirit of Improvisation]250
CHAPTER XIX.
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas.
[Birth and Training]255
[Exile]256
[Public Service in Sicily]256
[In Naples]257
[Persecution at Home]257
[Marries]257
[Persecution again]258
[His Sufferings and Death]259
[Variety of his Works]259
[Many suppressed]260
[His Poetry]261
[Its Characteristics]262
[Cultismo]263
[El Bachiller de la Torre]263
[His Prose Works]267
[Paul the Sharper]269
[Various Tracts]269
[The Knight of the Forceps]269
[La Fortuna con Seso]270
[Visions]271
[Quevedo’s Character]274
CHAPTER XX.
The Drama of Lope’s School.
[Madrid the Capital]276
[Its Effect on the Drama]277
[Damian de Vegas]277
[Francisco de Tarrega]278
[His Enemiga Favorable]279
[Gaspar de Aguilar]280
[His Mercader Amante]280
[His Suerte sin Esperanza]281
[Guillen de Castro]283
[His Dramas]284
[His Don Quixote]285
[His Piedad y Justicia]285
[His Santa Bárbara]286
[His Mocedades del Cid]287
[Corneille’s Cid]289
[Other Plays of Guillen]292
[Luis Vélez de Guevara]293
[Mas pesa el Rey que la Sangre]294
[Other Plays of Guevara]296
[Juan Perez de Montalvan]297
[His San Patricio]298
[His Orfeo]299
[His Dramas]300
[His Amantes de Teruel]301
[His Don Carlos]304
[His Autos]305
[His Theory of the Drama]306
[His Success]307
CHAPTER XXI.
Drama of Lope’s School, concluded.
[Tirso de Molina]308
[His Dramas]308
[His Burlador de Sevilla]309
[His Vergonzoso en Palacio]312
[His Theory of the Drama]314
[Antonio Mira de Mescua]315
[His Dramas and Poems]315
[Joseph de Valdivielso]316
[His Autos]317
[His Religious Dramas]317
[Antonio de Mendoza]318
[Ruiz de Alarcon]319
[His Dramas]320
[His Texedor de Segovia]320
[His Verdad Sospechosa]321
[Other Plays]322
[Belmonte, Cordero, Enriquez]323
[Villaizan, Sanchez, Herrera]323
[Barbadillo, Solorzano]324
[Un Ingenio]325
[El Diablo Predicador]325
[Opposition to Lope’s School]327
[By Men of Learning]328
[By the Church]329
[The Drama triumphs]331
[Lope’s Fame]332
CHAPTER XXII.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
[Birth and Family]333
[Education]334
[Festivals of San Isidro]335
[Serves as a Soldier]336
[Writes for the Stage]336
[Patronized by Philip the Fourth]336
[Rebellion in Catalonia]337
[Controls the Theatre]337
[Enters the Church]337
[Less favored by Charles the Second]338
[Death and Burial]339
[Person and Character]340
[His Works]341
[His Dramas]342
[Many falsely ascribed to him]342
[Their Number]343
[His Autos Sacramentales]344
[Feast of the Corpus Christi]345
[His different Autos]347
[His Divino Orfeo]348
[Popularity of his Autos]350
[His Religious Plays]351
[Troubles with the Church]351
[Ecclesiastics write Plays]352
[Calderon’s San Patricio]353
[His Devocion de la Cruz]355
[His Mágico Prodigioso]355
[Other similar Plays]358
CHAPTER XXIII.
Calderon, continued.
[Characteristics of his Drama]360
[Trusts to the Story]361
[Sacrifices much to it]362
[Dramatic Interest strong]363
[Love, Jealousy, and Honor]364
[Amar despues de la Muerte]364
[El Médico de su Honra]368
[El Pintor de su Deshonra]371
[El Mayor Monstruo los Zelos]371
[El Príncipe Constante]376
CHAPTER XXIV.
Calderon, concluded.
[Comedias de Capa y Espada]381
[Antes que todo es mi Dama]382
[La Dama Duende]383
[La Vanda y la Flor]385
[Various Sources of Calderon’s Plots]389
[Castilian Tone everywhere]389
[Exaggerated Sense of Honor]391
[Domestic Authority]392
[Duels]393
[Immoral Tendency of his Dramas]394
[Attacked]394
[Defended]394
[Calderon’s courtly Tone]395
[His Style and Versification]396
[His long Success]397
[Changes the Drama little]399
[But gives it a lofty Tone]400
[His Dramatic Character]401
CHAPTER XXV.
Drama of Calderon’s School.
[Most Brilliant Period]403
[Agustin Moreto]403
[His Dramas]404
[Figuron Plays]405
[El Lindo Don Diego]405
[El Desden con el Desden]406
[Francisco de Roxas]408
[His Dramas]408
[Del Rey abaxo Ninguno]409
[Several Authors to one Play]411
[Alvaro Cubillo]412
[Leyba and Cancer y Velasco]413
[Enriquez Gomez]414
[Sigler and Zabaleta]414
[Fernando de Zarate]414
[Miguel de Barrios]415
[Diamante]416
[Monroy, Monteser, Cuellar]417
[Juan de la Hoz]417
[Juan de Matos Fragoso]418
[Sebastian de Villaviciosa]419
[Antonio de Solís]420
[Francisco Banzes Candamo]422
[Zarzuelas]424
[Opera at Madrid]425
[Antonio de Zamora]426
[Lanini, Martinez]427
[Rosete, Villegas]427
[Joseph de Cañizares]427
[Decline of the Drama]428
[Vera y Villarroel]429
[Inez de la Cruz]429
[Fernandez de Leon]429
[Tellez de Azevedo]429
[Old Drama of Lope and of Calderon]429
CHAPTER XXVI.
Old Theatres.
[Nationality of the Drama]430
[The Autor of a Company]431
[Relations with the Dramatists]432
[Actors, their Number]433
[The most distinguished]434
[Their Character and hard Life]435
[Exhibitions in the Day-time]436
[Poor Scenery and Properties]437
[The Stage]437
[The Audience]437
[The Mosqueteros]437
[The Gradas, and Cazuela]438
[The Aposentos]438
[Entrance-money]439
[Rudeness of the Audiences]439
[Honors to the Authors]440
[Play-Bills]440
[Titles of Plays]441
[Representations]441
[Loa]441
[Ballad]441
[First Jornada]443
[First Entremes]444
[Second Jornada and Entremes]445
[Third Jornada and Saynete]445
[Dancing]445
[Ballads]446
[Xacaras]446
[Zarabandas]447
[Popular Character of the Drama]448
[Great Number of Authors]449
[Royal Patronage]450
[Great Number of Dramas]451
[All National]452
CHAPTER XXVII.
Historical and Narrative Poems.
[Old Epic Tendencies]454
[Revived in the Time of Charles the Fifth]455
[Hierónimo Sempere]455
[Luis de Çapata]456
[Diego Ximenez de Ayllon]457
[Hippólito Sanz]457
[Alfonso Fernandez]458
[Espinosa and Coloma]458
[Alonso de Ercilla]459
[His Araucana]461
[Diego de Osorio]464
[Pedro de Oña]466
[Gabriel Lasso de la Vega]467
[Antonio de Saavedra]467
[Juan de Castellanos]468
[Centenera]469
[Gaspar de Villagra]469
[Religious Narrative Poems]470
[Hernandez Blasco]470
[Gabriel de Mata]470
[Cristóval de Virues]470
[His Monserrate]471
[Nicolas Bravo]472
[Joseph de Valdivielso]472
[Diego de Hojeda]473
[His Christiada]473
[Alonso Diaz]474
[Antonio de Escobar]474
[Alonso de Azevedo]474
[Rodriguez de Vargas]474
[Jacobo Uziel]474
[Sebastian de Nieva Calvo]474
[Duran Vivas]474
[Juan Dávila]474
[Antonio Enriquez Gomez]474
[Hernando Dominguez Camargo]474
[Juan de Encisso y Monçon]474
[Imaginative Epics]475
[Orlando Furioso]476
[Nicolas Espinosa]476
[Abarca de Bolea]477
[Garrido de Villena]477
[Agostin Alonso]477
[Luis Barahona de Soto]477
[His Lágrimas de Angélica]478
[Bernardo de Balbuena]479
[His Bernardo]480
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Historical and Narrative Poems, concluded.
[Subjects from Antiquity]481
[Boscan, Mendoza, Silvestre]481
[Montemayor, Villegas]481
[Perez, Romero de Cepeda]482
[Fábulas, Góngora]483
[Villamediana, Pantaleon]483
[Moncayo, Villalpando]483
[Salazar]483
[Miscellaneous Poems]483
[Yague de Salas]484
[Miguel de Silveira]485
[Fr. Lopez de Zarate]486
[Mock-heroic Poems]487
[Cosmé de Aldana]487
[Cintio Merctisso]488
[Villaviciosa]489
[Heroic Poems]491
[Don John of Austria]491
[Hierónimo de Cortereal]492
[Juan Rufo]493
[Pedro de la Vezilla]494
[Miguel Giner]495
[Duarte Diaz]495
[Lorenzo de Zamora]495
[Cristóval de Mesa]496
[Juan de la Cueva]497
[Alfonso Lopez, El Pinciano]498
[Francisco Mosquera]499
[Vasconcellos]499
[Bernarda Ferreira]500
[Antonio de Vera y Figueroa]501
[Francisco de Borja]501
[Rise of Heroic Poetry]502
[Its Decline]503
CHAPTER XXIX.
Lyric Poetry.
[Early Lyric Tendency]505
[Italian School of Boscan]505
[National School]506
[Lomas de Cantorál]506
[Francisco de Figueroa]507
[Vicente Espinel]507
[Montemayor]507
[Barahona de Soto, Rufo]508
[Vegas, Padilla]508
[Lopez Maldonado]508
[Fernando de Herrera]509
[His Odes]511
[His Castilian Style]513
[Pedro Espinosa]515
[His Flores de Poetas Ilustres]515
[Rey de Artieda]516
[Manoel de Portugal]516
[Cristóval de Mesa]517
[Francisco de Ocaña]517
[Lope de Sosa]517
[Alonso de Ledesma]517
[The Conceptistas]518
[Cultismo and its Causes]519
[Luis de Góngora]521
[His earlier Poetry]522
[His later Poetry]523
[His Extravagance]524
[His Obscurity]524
[His Commentators]525
[His Followers]526
[Count Villamediana]527
[Felix de Arteaga]528
[Roca y Serna]528
[Antonio de Vega]529
[Anastasio Pantaleon]529
[Violante del Cielo]529
[Manoel de Melo]529
[Moncayo, La Torre]530
[Vergara]530
[Rozas, Ulloa]530
[Salazar]530
[Spread of Cultismo]531
[Contest about it]532
[Francisco de Medrano]533
[Pedro Venegas]533
[Baltasar de Alcazar]533
[Arguijo]534
[Antonio Balvas]534
CHAPTER XXX.
Lyric Poetry, concluded.
[The Argensolas]536
[Lupercio]536
[Bartolomé]537
[Their Poetry]538
[Juan de Jauregui]539
[His Orfeo]540
[His Aminta]540
[His Lyrical Poetry]541
[Estévan Manuel de Villegas]542
[Imitates Anacreon]543
[Bernardo de Balbuena]544
[Barbadillo, Polo, Rojas]544
[Francisco de Rioja]545
[Borja y Esquilache]546
[Antonio de Mendoza]547
[Bernardino de Rebolledo]548
[Ribero, Quiros]549
[Barrios, Lucio y Espinossa]549
[Evia, Inez de la Cruz]549
[Solís, Candamo, Marcante]549
[Montoro, Negrete]549
[Success of Lyric Poetry]550
[Religious]550
[Secular and Popular]550
[Secular and more formal]551
[Its General Character]552

HISTORY
OF
SPANISH LITERATURE.


SECOND PERIOD.