CHAPTER XVII.

LOPE DE VEGA, CONTINUED.

Dramas on Common Life 210

El Cuerdo en su Casa 211

La Donzella Teodor 212

Cautivos de Argel 214

Three Classes of Secular Plays 215

The Influence of the Church 216

Religious Plays 217

Plays founded on the Bible 217

El Nacimiento de Christo 218

Other such Plays 221

Comedias de Santos 223

Several such Plays 224

San Isidro de Madrid 225

Autos Sacramentales 226

Festival of the Corpus Christi 227

Number of Lope’s Autos 229

Their Form 230

Their Loas 230

Their Entremeses 231

The Autos themselves 232

Lope’s Secular Entremeses 234

Popular Tone of his Drama 236

His Eclogues 237

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