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• Lope de Vega: el verso y la vida by Antonio Sánchez Jiménez
• Marsha S. Collins

BIOGRAPHERS OF LOPE DE VEGA (1562–1635) have always faced a daunting task. How can one encapsulate such a rich and varied life, so full of adventures, high and low points—both personal and professional—that it rivals any work composed by this great poet, playwright, and author? How can one characterize such a huge and diverse body of work and correspondence, given that in the case of Lope, life and creative work are inextricably intertwined? How can the biographer capture Lope's art and life, verso y vida, when the artist's life itself was a conscious, continuous act of self-fashioning and self-creation? In Lope de Vega: el verso y la vida, Antonio Sánchez Jiménez has accomplished all of these tasks in a beautifully written, masterful biography of el Fénix de los Ingenios. With copious notes, informative illustrations, meticulous documentation, judicious analysis of Lope's correspondence, and a bibliography abundant in primary and secondary source materials, Lope de Vega: el verso y la vida provides a worthy successor to what has long been the gold standard in Lope biographies, Hugo A. Rennert's contribution, published in a Spanish translation with additional materials from Américo Castro, as Vida de Lope de Vega (1562–1635) (1919, updated ed., Anaya, 1968).

Sánchez Jiménez explains in the preface that he has chosen to interrupt the chronological telling of Lope's life at particular moments to describe, contextualize, or synthesize aspects or tendencies in the writer's life and work during a period of time. For readers who might find this style digressive, which is not my view, he presents a detailed timeline of important events in Lope's life and career, in some instances providing a month-to-month account of everything from the writer's rental of a house or the death of one of his children to a significant skirmish with the cultistas or the granting of permission to publish one of his works. The timeline offers an intriguing thumbnail sketch of Lope's extremely busy life, involving creative work, family matters, and business affairs of a personal and professional nature. Lope engaged in many self-fashioning endeavors related to his quest for validation of his status as a serious artist by powerful courtiers and by the royal court through his pursuit of the position of cronista real, a pursuit ultimately doomed to failure.

Chapters 1 through 4 of the biography's eight chapters focus on Lope's childhood and formative years; the early period of famous liaisons and [End Page 189] scandals (e.g., his romantic involvement with actresses Elena Osorio and Micaela de Luján); and his emergence as a successful dramatist and author. As Sánchez Jiménez emphasizes, Lope's birth into a family of skilled artisans with aspirations of social ascendance in the newly designated capital city of Madrid would shape his actions and ambitions for life. Readers will find of special interest details on Lope's formal education at the Jesuit Colegio Imperial, where he was likely introduced to the history and practice of dramaturgy and dramatic performance; the University of Alcalá, where he studied but did not receive a degree; and the Academia Real Matemática, which specialized in cosmography and navigation (41–49). For scholars of early modern theater, chapter 2 provides especially valuable insights into tendencies that emerge in Lope's life and art in the 1580s. These would become enduring characteristics of his life and literary production, such as his strategic and rather compulsive inclination towards creative self-representation and fashioning of autobiographical fiction, his targeting of popular and courtly audiences by writing in different genres (e.g., ballads and pastoral works), his presentation of love and jealousy as symbiotic themes and emotions, and his dependence on producing successful comedias for the theater as the basis of personal financial security (50–84). Sánchez Jiménez shows how during the 1580s Lope was immersed in all...

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• Lope de Vega: el verso y la vida by Antonio Sánchez Jiménez
• 玛莎·柯林斯

洛佩德维加(1562–1635) 的传记作家一直面临着一项艰巨的任务。如此丰富多彩的生活，充满冒险、高潮和低谷——无论是个人的还是专业的——如何才能与这位伟大的诗人、剧作家和作家的任何作品相媲美？考虑到在 Lope 的情况下，生活和创作工作密不可分，人们如何描述如此庞大而多样的工作和通信？如何才能捕获传记诺普的艺术与生活，反面ÿVIDA，当艺术家的生活本身就是自我塑造，自我创造的意识，持续的行为？在洛佩德维加：el verso y la vida, 安东尼奥·桑切斯·希门尼斯 (Antonio Sánchez Jiménez) 在 el Fénix de los Ingenios 写得精美、精湛的传记中完成了所有这些任务。Lope de Vega: el verso y la vida有大量的笔记、翔实的插图、细致的文档、对 Lope 信件的明智分析以及丰富的一手和二手资料的参考书目，为长期以来一直是 Lope 的黄金标准提供了一个有价值的继承者传记，雨果 A. 雷纳特 (Hugo A. Rennert) 的贡献，以西班牙文译本出版，并附有来自 Américo Castro 的其他材料，如Vida de Lope de Vega (1562–1635)（1919 年，更新版，Anaya，1968 年）。

Sánchez Jiménez 在序言中解释说，他选择在特定时刻打断 Lope 生活的时间顺序讲述，以描述、背景化或综合一段时间内作家生活和工作的各个方面或趋势。对于可能会觉得这种风格离题的读者（这不是我的观点），他提供了 Lope 生活和职业生涯中重要事件的详细时间表，在某些情况下，提供了从作者租房或他的一个孩子死于与邪教徒的重大冲突或获准出版他的一部作品。时间线提供了 Lope 极其忙碌的生活的有趣缩略图，涉及创造性工作、家庭事务以及个人和专业性质的商业事务。洛佩参与了许多自我塑造的努力，这些努力与他寻求通过追求克罗尼斯塔雷亚尔的位置而被强大的朝臣和皇室确认他作为严肃艺术家的地位有关，这种追求最终注定要失败。

传记八章中的第一章到第四章重点介绍洛佩的童年和成长时期；早期著名的联络人和[完页189]丑闻（例如，他与女演员 Elena Osorio 和 Micaela de Luján 的浪漫关系）；以及他作为成功的剧作家和作家的崛起。正如桑切斯·希门尼斯 (Sánchez Jiménez) 所强调的那样，洛佩 (Lope) 在新指定的首都马德里出生于一个渴望提升社会地位的熟练工匠家庭，这将塑造他的行动和人生抱负。读者会发现 Lope 在耶稣会帝国理工学院接受正规教育的特别有趣的细节，在那里他很可能了解了戏剧和戏剧表演的历史和实践；阿尔卡拉大学，他在那里学习但没有获得学位；以及专门研究宇宙学和导航的 Academia Real Matemática (41-49)。对于早期现代戏剧的学者来说，第 2 章提供了对 Lope 1580 年代生活和艺术中出现的趋势的特别有价值的见解。这些将成为他的生活和文学作品的持久特征，例如他对创造性的自我表现和塑造自传小说的战略性和相当强迫性的倾向，他通过不同类型的写作（例如，民谣和田园作品）瞄准大众和宫廷观众)，他将爱和嫉妒作为共生的主题和情感呈现出来，以及他依赖为剧院制作成功的喜剧作为个人财务保障的基础 (50-84)。桑切斯·希门尼斯 (Sánchez Jiménez) 展示了洛佩 (Lope) 在 1580 年代如何沉浸在所有…… 例如他对创造性的自我表现和自传小说的塑造的战略性和相当强迫性的倾向，他通过不同体裁（例如，民谣和田园作品）的写作瞄准大众和宫廷观众，他将爱和嫉妒作为共生主题的表现和情绪，以及他依赖为剧院制作成功的喜剧作为个人财务安全的基础（50-84）。桑切斯·希门尼斯 (Sánchez Jiménez) 展示了洛佩 (Lope) 在 1580 年代如何沉浸在所有…… 例如他对创造性的自我表现和自传小说的塑造的战略性和相当强迫性的倾向，他通过不同体裁（例如，民谣和田园作品）的写作瞄准大众和宫廷观众，他将爱和嫉妒作为共生主题的表现和情绪，以及他依赖为剧院制作成功的喜剧作为个人财务安全的基础（50-84）。桑切斯·希门尼斯 (Sánchez Jiménez) 展示了洛佩 (Lope) 在 1580 年代如何沉浸在所有…… 以及他依赖为剧院制作成功的喜剧作为个人财务保障的基础（50-84）。桑切斯·希门尼斯 (Sánchez Jiménez) 展示了洛佩 (Lope) 在 1580 年代如何沉浸在所有…… 以及他依赖为剧院制作成功的喜剧作为个人财务保障的基础（50-84）。桑切斯·希门尼斯 (Sánchez Jiménez) 展示了洛佩 (Lope) 在 1580 年代如何沉浸在所有……