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Nov 25, 1501
Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso was born in 1501. Garcilaso was a spanish writer who documented the events of the Incas and how they lived. He also documented the spanish conquest of the Incas. -
Sep 29, 1547
Miguel de Cervante
Miguel de Cervantes is a prolific writer in the Golden age of Spanish literature. He wrote many books such as, Don Quixote, Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, and Viaje del Parnaso. -
Jul 11, 1561
Gongora
Gongora was born into a noble family and studied at the University of Salamanca at the age of fifteen. Already a well known poet by 1585 because of the praise he recieved from Miguel de Cervantes. He wrote the Fabula his most known work. -
Nov 25, 1562
Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega is a popular 16th century Spanish playwright. He wrote the plays the Steel of Madrid, a LAdy of Little Sense, and fuenteovejuna. -
Sep 17, 1580
Francisco Gomez de Quevedo
Francisco was a spanish poet from the 16th century. He was born into a wealthy family and by the time he graduated college he had several poems already published. His writings attracted attention from Miguel de Cervantes. He Wrote Difficulta el retrar una grande hermosura, que se lo habia manado, y ensena el modo que solo alcanza para fuese posible ("Painting a great beauty, which he was asked to do, is hard, and he shows the only way it might be possible") is his most famous work. -
Shakespeares plays are performed
During the period of 1590 and 1592 plays from Shakespeare's King Henry VI series. These plays include Richard III, and The Comedy of Errors. -
Theatres close due to the Plague
Shakespeare could no longer produce his plays with out a theatre. This is when Shakespeare began to write the narrative poems, The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. -
Shakespeare's acting
Shakespeare had became a prolific writer and actor at the time. This lead to him becoming a shareholder in the Lord's Chambermaid's men, one of the top acting groups at the time. -
Shakespeare writes more plays
In the absence of the theatre Shakespeare had an oppurnity to write more plays. By 1594 he had wrote The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentleman of Verona, and Love's Labor Lost. -
Shakespeare's most prolific period
During this year he wrote Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice. These are considered to be his most famous works. -
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Over the course of two years Shakespeare's Sonnets were published. In this two year period he had published 143 sonnets. -
La prueba de los ingenios
With the large role of the Catholic Church at the time such publications with immoral themes was looked down up. However, this book remains a classic in Spanish literature. -
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Sor Juana is the illegitamte daughter of a Spanish father and Creole mother. When she was seventeen the Viceroy assembled a group of scholars to test her intellegence. She published her biography Neptuno alegorico in 1680.