"The Golden Age of Spain (mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries) saw a certain reaction against the generally antifemale attitude characteristic of the Middle Ages. Both Cervantes (1547-1616) and Lope de Vega (1562-1635) often depicted women not as weak, wicked, and lecherous, but as strong, heroic, and virtuous; and both admired their contemporary St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)..."
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Angel Flores and Kate Flores, Introduction to The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems (1986)
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Lope de Vega
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) (November 25 1562 – August 27 1635) was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His surviving plays, numbering more than 400, form the foundation of the Spanish dramatic tradition.
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