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GALLEYS TO GLORY: LOPE DE VEGA'S PARADOXICAL ITINERARY OF AUTHORSHIP

GALLEYS TO GLORY: LOPE DE VEGA'S PARADOXICAL ITINERARY OF AUTHORSHIP GALLEYS TO GLORY: LOPE DE VEGA'S PARADOXJ[CAL IT][NJERARY OF AUTHORSHIP ... some of us were born under the star that renders even our cradle a galley and from that moment we are compelled [to serve] until death brings liberty and rest ... and thus sir, despite all my problems, I will arm myself with love and gratitude to serve your excellency in such a way that I will not give you reason to complain. I Lope de Vega, letter to the Duke of Sessa, 1612 {Epistolario 3: 92-93} LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO (1562-1635), canonized in literary history as the most prolific and famous dramatist of the Golden Age in Spain, sought to refashion his identity and attain social advancement in the new court of Philip III. As such, his literary~areer highlights the creativity and tensions fomented when art and politics merged in the shadow of a royal palace. Of course, throughout Early Modern Europe, high-status mecenat prompted ambitious, creative individuals to link their aspirations to princes. These patron-client unions, as scholarship in the past two decades has shown, 2 nourished a host of literary and even scientific innovations. But they also inspired mountains of formulaic praise, equally abundant http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

GALLEYS TO GLORY: LOPE DE VEGA'S PARADOXICAL ITINERARY OF AUTHORSHIP

Wright, Elizabeth R.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 27 (1): 31 – Dec 2, 2001
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© Copyright 2001 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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GALLEYS TO GLORY: LOPE DE VEGA'S PARADOXJ[CAL IT][NJERARY OF AUTHORSHIP ... some of us were born under the star that renders even our cradle a galley and from that moment we are compelled [to serve] until death brings liberty and rest ... and thus sir, despite all my problems, I will arm myself with love and gratitude to serve your excellency in such a way that I will not give you reason to complain. I Lope de Vega, letter to the Duke of Sessa, 1612 {Epistolario 3: 92-93} LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO (1562-1635), canonized in literary history as the most prolific and famous dramatist of the Golden Age in Spain, sought to refashion his identity and attain social advancement in the new court of Philip III. As such, his literary~areer highlights the creativity and tensions fomented when art and politics merged in the shadow of a royal palace. Of course, throughout Early Modern Europe, high-status mecenat prompted ambitious, creative individuals to link their aspirations to princes. These patron-client unions, as scholarship in the past two decades has shown, 2 nourished a host of literary and even scientific innovations. But they also inspired mountains of formulaic praise, equally abundant

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