Shameless Thread Bragging On My Nephew.

My sister's son is an assistant professor at Syracuse of classic Spanish literature and is also a researcher of early Spanish playwrights. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the works of the 17th century Spanish playwright and poet Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio.

Lope de Vega was a prolific playwright who is considered to be the Spanish Shakespeare. It is thought that he wrote over 1300 plays of which only 300 have survived.

Last year while doing further research in Barcelona at the Spanish National Library on the author and other playwrights and poets, my nephew discovered a comedic play previously thought to be lost, "Women and Servants", written by Lope de Vega circa 1613-1614.





Today, for the first time in over three centuries the play "Women and Servants" was performed before a live audience.

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=138248&CultureCode=en
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/28825