As such, he is regarded as one of Spain's foremost dramatists and one of the finest playwrights of world literature. His mother, who was of Flemish descent, died in ; his father, an hidalgo of Cantabrian origins who was secretary to the treasury, died in This was followed by two other plays that same year: La selva confusa and Los Macabeos.
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He was ordained in , and became a priest at San Salvador church, in Madrid. According to a statement he made a year or two later, he decided to give up writing secular dramas for the commercial theatres.
Though he did not adhere strictly to this resolution, he now wrote mostly mythological plays for the palace theatres, and autos sacramentales —one-act allegories illustrating the mystery of the Eucharist —for performance during the feast of Corpus Christi. He died May 25, , leaving only partially complete the autos sacramentales that he had been working on for that year. His burial was austere and unembellished, as he desired in his will: In this manner he left the theatres orphaned in which he was considered one of the best dramatic writers of his time.
This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: He therefore usually reduced the number of scenes in his plays as compared to those of Lope de Vega , so as to avoid any superfluity and present only those scenes essential to the play, also reducing the number of different metres in his plays for the sake of gaining a greater stylistic uniformity.
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Although his poetry and plays leaned towards culteranismo , he usually reduced the level and obscurity of that style by avoiding metaphors and references away from those that uneducated viewers could understand. However, he had a liking for symbolism, for example making a fall from a horse a metaphor of a fall into disgrace, the fall representing dishonour; the use of horoscopes or prophecies at the start of the play as a way of making false predictions about the following to occur, symbolizing the utter uncertainty of future.
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Some of the most common themes of his plays were heavily influenced by his Jesuit education. An illusion, A shadow, a fiction, And the greatest good is small; For all of life is a dream, And dreams, are only dreams. Indeed, his themes tended to be complex and philosophical, and express complicated states of mind in a manner that few playwrights have been able to manage.
He collaborated with Cosme Lotti in developing complex scenographies that were integrated in some of his plays, specially his most religious-themed ones such as the Autos Sacramentales , becoming extremely complex allegories of moral, philosophical and religious concepts.
Although his fame dwindled during the 18th century, he was rediscovered in the early 19th century by the German Romantics. Translations of August Wilhelm Schlegel reinvigorated interest in the playwright, who, alongside Shakespeare , subsequently became a banner figure for the German Romantic movement.
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