The Philology Section of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of La Laguna will hold the event between October 7th and 9th. First International Seminar on the Golden Age. Lope before Lope: towards the formation of the new comedy. It will bring together researchers from French, Italian, Chilean, Mexican and Spanish universities to reflect on the lesser-known stage of the Madrid playwright and to establish the precedents of the most dynamic cultural industry of the Golden Age: the new comedy.
This seminar is led by the Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of La Laguna Carlos Brito Díaz, and will feature several specialized presentations as well as several panels for the presentation of short papers, structured in five thematic areas: The theater of the Sixteenth Century: formulas, ascendants and discoveries; Genealogies of Lope; At the foot of the stage. Particular studies; The first stage of the Phoenix. Panoramic visions; and Lope in posterity.
The meeting will analyze the strategies for representing, questioning, and reconceptualizing the development of the dramatic model that Lope de Vega experimented with and consolidated on the foundation of the comedians. dell'arte, The Valencian tragedies and Renaissance dramaturgy generated the most influential cultural industry for leisure and the economy of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. It aims to foster the exchange and generation of knowledge from a peripheral area, with a research reality as unique as that of the Canary Islands, in order to situate debates about the Golden Age outside the usual cultural and research centers.
In addition, there will be parallel activities from cultural associations of the University of La Laguna: a performance by the Philology Theatre Group, coordinated by José Antonio Ramos Arteaga; and the closing concert of the Camerata Lacunensis choir, one of the most awarded artistic groups on the international scene.
Lope de Vega never visited the Canary Islands, but he foreshadowed them in his play The Guanches of Tenerife and the conquest of Canaria, where he foreshadowed some of the anthropological symbols of island society such as miscegenation, through the interracial relationship between the indigenous princess Dácil and the Castilian captain Gonzalo del Castillo, as a metaphor for the turbulent encounter of civilizations.
These conferences have been organized in memoriam to the figure of Andrés Sánchez Robayna, Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of La Laguna, who died in 2025. In addition to his important work as a poet and essayist and his contribution to the field of translation, in terms of teaching and research he worked on the literature of the Golden Age and published several essays on that period such as Three studies on Góngora (1983); Canary Island poets of the Golden Age (1990); To read 'First Dream' by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1991); Studies on Cairasco de Figueroa (1992); and Gongorine Silva (1993).
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