The Dog in the Manger. The Valencian Widow. The Dance Teacher

The great Spanish playwright, a genius of the Renaissance era, Lope de Vega wrote over two thousand plays in his lifetime, of which about a quarter have survived to this day. In the ability to come up with plots, build intrigue, and write dialogues, Lope de Vega, a brilliant improviser, knows no equal, and the inventiveness with which he created romantic twists was truly inexhaustible. Contemporaries unanimously recognized his genius, and the centuries that have passed since his death only affirm their opinion: the works of Lope de Vega were admired by Pushkin and Zhukovsky, Ostrovsky and Stanislavsky, and his plays were translated by the best Russian writers. This collection includes the masterpieces of Lope de Vega: “The Dog in the Manger,” “The Valencian Widow,” and “The Dance Teacher” – comedies about the “ordinary miracle” of love, popular around the world to this day.