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Title of the Review/Article: 

Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega y Carpio. By Henry Richard Lord Holland. (Article no. XVI)

Periodical (dates): The Edinburgh Review, or The Critical Journal (1802-1929)
Volume: 9
Number: 17
Date: 1806 (October)
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Pages: 224-242
Editor: Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)
Author (Reviewer): Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)
Book (Reviewed):

Henry Richard Vassall, Baron Holland. Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega y Carpio by Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (London: Longman, 1806).


Brief description:

Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, was not only a major whig politician, but also a Hispanophile and one of the most prominent British Hispanists of the early nineteenth century. This is the first edition of the work; a second one came out in 1817 and it was reviewed in the October 1817 issue of The Quarterly Review by Robert Southey. Francis Jeffrey praises Holland’s work and its usefulness for the dissemination of knowledge about the Spanish author, but his assessment of Lope is harsher and often tinged with Black Legend clichés.


Spanish authors mentioned:

Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562-1635)
Guillén de Castro y Bellvís (1569-1631)
Juan Pérez de Montalbán [or Montalván] (1602-1638)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
José de Valdivielso (1565-1638)
Roque de Figueroa (1571-1651)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681)
Agustín Moreto y Cavana (1618-1669)
Lope de Rueda (c. 1500-1565)
Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta (1734-1787)
Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla (1607-1648)
Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627)
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811)
Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817)
Juan de Mariana, also Father Mariana (1536-1624)
Blas Antonio Nasarre y Férriz (1689-1751)
Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 1070-1130)


Spanish works mentioned:

Fama póstuma (Juan Pérez de Montalbán, 1636)

La hermosura de Angélica (Lope de Vega, 1602)

La Dragontea (Lope de Vega, 1598)

Jerusalén conquistada (Lope de Vega, 1609)

Corona trágica (Lope de Vega, 1627)

Laurel de Apolo (Lope de Vega, 1630)

Égloga a Claudio [La Vega del Parnaso, 1637] (Lope de Vega)

La tercera Orden de San Francisco (c. 1631) [attributed to Lope de Vega and Juan Pérez de Montalbán]

La Circe (Lope de Vega, 1624)

La fábula de Perseo o La bella Andrómeda (Lope de Vega, 1621)

Arcadia (Lope de Vega, 1598)

La Gatomaquia (Lope de Vega, 1634)

Pastores de Belén (Lope de Vega, 1612)

“Canción del Gigante a Crisalda” [Arcadia, 1598] (Lope de Vega)

La Estrella de Sevilla (c. 1620) [It was attributed to Lope de Vega until 1920 and nowadays some scholars attribute it to Andrés de Claramonte]

Arte nuevo de hacer comedias (Lope de Vega, 1609)


Spanish works cited (P=Partially, F=Fully):

Égloga a Claudio [La Vega del Parnaso, 1637] (Lope de Vega) (P)


Spanish works translated (P=Partially, F=Fully):

Égloga a Claudio [La Vega del Parnaso, 1637] (Lope de Vega) (P)


Other relevant Spanish names mentioned:

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba (1507-1582)

Charles I of Spain, also known as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria (1500-1558)

Philip II of Spain (1537-1598)

Philip IV of Spain (1605-1665)


Spanish place names:

Astorga

Alcalá de Henares

Madrid

Valencia

Toledo

Seville

Salamanca


References to Spanish relevant historic events:

The Spanish Armada (July-August 1588)

Council of Trouble, also known as Council of Blood (1567-1574)

Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1613)


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