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- ↑ Joan Oleza. “Las comedias de pícaro de Lope de Vega: una propuesta de subgénero,” Comedias y comediantes. Estudio sobre el teatro clásico español, ed. Manuel Diego y Teresa Ferrer. Universitat de Valencia, 1991: 165-87.
- ↑ Frederick A. de Armas, “El mercader y la cortesana: arte, cuerpo y comercio en El anzuelo de Fenisa de Lope de Vega,” El poder de la economía: la imagen de los mercaderes y el comercio en el mundo hispánico de los siglos XVI y XVII, ed. Christoph Strosetzki. Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica 123. Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2018: 229-46.
- ↑ David M. Gitlitz, “Introduction” to El anzuelo de Fenisa. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1988, p. x
- ↑ Nancy D’Antuono, Boccaccio’s Novelle in the Theater of Lope de Vega Madrid: Porrua, 1983, p. 115
