1930. A look at the life of the great Spanish playwright of who it was said...And then came the monster of nature, the great Lope de Vega, who took over the comic monarchy...Thus Cervantes referred to the sweeping success of the young Lope Felix de Vega Carpio, who effectively put every other Spanish playwright out of work at the beginning of the 1580s. Contents: Learning to Walk; Alma Mater; A Helen and a Siege; Stability, Thy Name is Woman; From Jail to Galleon; A Visit to the King's Sister; Jacob's Lot; Saints, Dragons and Kings; The Secret of Toledo; The Chocolate Duke; De Consolatione or The Book of Clerks; Our Seraphic Mother Teresa and Other Less Blessed Souls; A Wilderness of Woe; and Two Crosses.