Pedro Calderón de la Barca was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for the many verse dramas he wrote for the theatre.
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo was a Spanish scholar, historian and literary critic. Even though his main interest was the history of ideas, and Hispanic philology in general, he also cultivated poetry, translation and philosophy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is second to Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes said that Lope de Vega was “The Phoenix of Wits” and “Monster of Nature”.
Giuseppina Favero, known by the pseudonym Mafalda Favero, was an Italian operatic lyric soprano.
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.
José de Cañizares y Suárez was a Spanish playwright. Cavalry officer, public official, and author of around one hundred works, he was one of the most important dramatists of the early 18th century.
Tomás Luceño y Becerra was a Spanish poet and playwright.
The Teatro Nacional Cervantes in Buenos Aires is the national stage and comedy theatre of Argentina.
María Ana de Jesús Guerrero Torija, better known as María Guerrero, was a prominent Spanish theatre actress, producer and director.
The Phantom Lady is a play by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. It was written and performed in 1629 and was published for the first time in the Primera parte de comedias de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1636).
Fenisa's Hook is a play written by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. It was first published in 1617 in the eighth part of Lope de Vega's Comedias. Based on the tenth tale of the eighth day of Boccaccio’s Decameron, it has been called a picaresque play, works that exhibit an uncharacteristic moral freedom. It focuses on merchants, the circulation of bodies and merchandise, and the seductive power of art. Boccaccio's tale is about a trickster who is tricked Lope uses Boccaccio's story for the main plot of his play, where Fenisa, a courtesan in Palermo attempts to woo the rich merchant Lucindo in order to gain his riches. A secondary plot includes Dinarda who is dressed as a man and has come to Palermo in search of the man who seduced her and left her behind. Fenisa ends up falling for this Dinarda who is disguised as don Juan de Lara. While Fenisa is able to trick Lucindo the first time around, he comes back to Sicily a second time and this time he tricks her. In the end, Dinarda finds and marries her Albano, while Fenisa is left without a spouse and without money.
Blanche of Castile was by birth a member of the Castilian House of Burgundy. She was the only child of Infante Peter of Castile and Infanta Maria of Aragon.
John of Castile, called the "el de Tarifa" was an infante of Castile and León. He was engaged in a decades-long fight for control over the Lordship of Biscay with Diego López V de Haro, the uncle of his wife.
José Fernández-Montesinos Lustau was a Spanish historian and literary critic belonging to the so-called Generación del 27, a generation he himself referred to as "this ill-fated, mistreated and dispersed generation of mine".
The Idiot Maiden is a 2006 Spanish romantic comedy film directed and written by Manuel Iborra, consisting of an adaptation of the 1613 play A Lady of Little Sense by Félix Lope de Vega. It stars Silvia Abascal, Jose Coronado, Macarena Gómez, Roberto San Martín, and Verónica Forqué.
Gli dei a Tebe is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari on a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti, performed for the first time at the Opernhaus in Hannover on 4 June 1943. The first performance used the translation of the libretto in German by Franz Rau. Ghisalberti had in turn derived the libretto from a work by the publisher Ludwig Strecker, who wrote librettos under the pseudonym Ludwig Andersen.
La dama boba is a commedia lirica by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in 3 acts to a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti, after Lope de Vega's 1613 play of the same title. It was premiered 1 February 1939 at La Scala, Milan under it:Umberto Berrettoni, with Mafalda Favero in the lead role. There are several recordings of the overture, one by Nello Santi conducting Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris [Decca 480 5374].
The Heraldo de Madrid was a Spanish daily newspaper published from 1890 to 1939, with an evening circulation. It came to espouse a Republican leaning in its later spell.
Agustín González de Amezúa y Mayo was a Spanish academic, member of Real Academia Española, Real Academia de la Historia and Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación. He is best known as historian of literature who specialized in Siglo de Oro, especially in works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega. He held various important scientific posts during early Francoism, especially in Consejo Superior de Investigaciónes Científicas. Politically he supported the Traditionalist cause, first as an Integrist and then as a Carlist militant; in the early 1940s he was in national executive of Comunión Tradicionalista. In the mid-1920s he was member of the Madrid ayuntamiento.
