Lope de Vega's Love Diptych Sonnets

Abstract

As a first approach to the peculiar poetic configuration of many Lope comedias, this article examines the sonnets of requited love pronounced by a galán and a lady in comedias of certain authorship: El mármol de Felisardo, El sol parado, Lucinda perseguida, El Hamete de Toledo, El animal de Hungría, El perro del hortelano, Nadie se conoce, La discreta venganza, Lo cierto por lo dudoso, La bella Aurora. After analyzing the dialectic and rhetorical peculiarities of these series, we compare with a diachronic perspective some of their modalities with those of the early comedias by Calderón de la Barca.