QuoteQuest“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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- Title
- Wikiquote: Lope de Vega
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Vega, Lope de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Lope de Vega. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega
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