Lope de Vega

noun

Vega, Lope de.

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noun

Lo·pe

[loh-pey, -pee; Spanish law-pe] , ( Lope Félix de Vega Carpio ) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.

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noun

Lo·pe de

[law-pe th

e] , ( Lope Félix de Vega Carpio ) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.

Garcilaso de la Vega.

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Lope de Vega (Spanish ˈlope ðe ˈβeɣa)

—n
	full name Lope Felix de Vega Carpio. 1562--1635, Spanish dramatist, novelist, and poet. He established the classic form of Spanish drama and was a major influence on European, esp French, literature. Some 500 of his 1800 plays are extant

Vega¹ (ˈviːɡə)

—n
	the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and one of the most conspicuous in the N hemisphere. It is part of an optical double star having a faint companion. Distance: 25.3 light years; spectral type: A0V

[C17: from Medieval Latin, from Arabic (al nasr) al wāqi, literally: the falling (vulture), that is, the constellation Lyra]

Vega² (ˈveɪɡə, Spanish ˈbeɣa)

—n
	See Lope de Vega

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Vega

1638, bright northern star, from Arabic (Al Nasr) al Waqi translated variously as "the eagle of the desert" or "the falling vulture."

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Vega

(vē'gə, vā'gə) Pronunciation Key
A star in the constellation Lyra and one of the five brightest stars in the night sky. It is a white main-sequence star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of 0.04. Vega, along with Altair and Deneb, form the Summer Triangle asterism. Scientific name: Alpha Lyra.

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"Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile genius, full of naturalness and sublimity, without the slightest spark of good taste or the least knowledge of the rules.... After two hundred years most of the outlandish and monstrous ideas of this author have acquired the right to be considered sublime, and almost all modern authors have copied him.... It does not occur to people that they should not copy him, and the lack of success of their copies simply makes people think that he is inimitable."

-Voltaire

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