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  "name": "Lope de Vega",
  "summary": "The dramatist who gave the Spanish stage its repertoire and who is quoted for a number he never verified: 1,500 plays by his own count, 1,800 by his first biographer's. Twentieth-century attribution study put 316 comedias beyond doubt — still, by a distance, the largest dramatic corpus of the Siglo de Oro.",
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  "tags": [
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    "golden-age",
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    "printing"
  ],
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  "questions": [
    "How many plays did Lope de Vega write?",
    "Did Lope de Vega really write 1,500 plays?",
    "Why did Lope de Vega print his own comedias?"
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      "id": "c1",
      "text": "The large figures come from the seventeenth century: Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Lope's friend and disciple and his first biographer, claimed in Fama póstuma that Lope wrote 1,800 comedias and 400 autos sacramentales, while Lope himself calculated around 1,500 comedias — a count in which specialists believe he included the autos and other works.",
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      "text": "Modern scholarship cut the number by attribution study: Hugo Rennert and Américo Castro, in 1919, reduced the comedias to 426 and concluded that 723 titles could be attributed to Lope, of which 219 were lost and 78 of doubtful authorship.",
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      "confidence": 0.8
    },
    {
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      "text": "The standard count comes from Silvanus Griswold Morley and Courtney Bruerton's Chronology of Lope de Vega's Comedias (1940), which used strophic versification as evidence and fixed 316 comedias beyond doubt, 73 doubtful, and 87 commonly attributed to Lope but not his.",
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      "confidence": 0.85
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "text": "Printed comedias sold well enough to be pirated, and Lope lost in court repeatedly before changing tactics: he obtained the privilege to print his own work in 1617 and published Partes IX to XX himself, his son-in-law Luis de Usátegui continuing the series as far as Parte XXV.",
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.8
    }
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  "evidence_tier": "secondary",
  "evidence": {
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    ]
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  "winning_edge": "Nearly every page about Lope repeats 1,500 or 1,800 plays as fact, sourced to nobody. This object gives the provenance of each figure, the two philological revisions that replaced them, and the criterion Morley and Bruerton used — so the honest answer to \"how many plays\" is a number with a method behind it. The printing-privilege claim adds the part usually left out: an author fighting for his own text, and losing until 1617.",
  "confidence": 0.85,
  "last_verified": "2026-08-09",
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