Lope de Vega’s “El Castigo Sin Venganza” Genre, Structure and Political and Moral Meaning

Abstract

"El castigo sin venganza" is a literary work conceived by Lope de Vega in 1631, just four years before his death, when the author was seventy-three years old. This play represents a product of the author's creative activity at an advanced stage of his life, characterised by a mature and perhaps disenchanted Lope de Vega, in a context where the figure of Calderón de la Barca predominated on the literary scene.
In these lines, we will focus on the analysis of three fundamental aspects of the work: the genre, the structure and the political and moral meaning.