Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/chaptersonspanis00fitziala CHAPTERS ON SPANISH LITERATURE by JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY Fellow of the British Academy Corresponding Member of the Spanish Academy Medallist of the Hispanic Society of America, etc. London Archibald Constable and Company Ltd. 1908 TO MY FELLOW-MEMBERS OF THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA THESE LECTURES ARE CORDIALLY DEDICATED PREFACE Last summer the Trustees of the Hispanic Society of America did me the honour to invite me to give a course of lectures on Spanish literature in the United States, and almost at the same time an invitation to lecture on the same subject reached me from the Provost of University College, London. The chapters contained in the present volume are the result. The lectures on the Cid, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón, and Modern Spanish Novelists were delivered during the autumn and winter of 1907 at the University of Columbia; some of these were repeated at Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, and Yale Universities; some at Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, and Smith’s College (Northampton, Massachusetts); and the whole series was given this spring at University College, London. Owing to the limited amount of time available for each lecture, it became necessary to omit a few paragraphs here and there in delivery. These are now restored. With the exception of the chapter on the Archpriest of Hita (part of which has been recast), all the lectures are printed substantially as they were written. Occasional references have been added in the form of notes. In addresses of this kind some repetition of ‘you’ and ‘I’ is almost unavoidable. It has, however, been thought better to retain the conversational character of the lectures, and it is hoped that the use of the objectionable first personal pronoun does not degenerate into abuse. Lastly, it is a duty and pleasure to thank my friendly audiences in America and England for the indulgence with which they listened to these discourses. JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY. KNEIPPBADEN: _vid_ NORRKÖPING, _May 1, 1908_. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE PREFACE vii I. THE CID 1 II. THE ARCHPRIEST OF HITA 25 III. THE LITERARY COURT OF JUAN II. 55 IV. THE _ROMANCERO_ 77 V. THE LIFE OF CERVANTES 120 VI. THE WORKS OF CERVANTES 142 VII. LOPE DE VEGA 163 VIII. CALDERÓN 184 IX. THE DRAMATIC SCHOOL OF CALDERÓN 184 X. MODERN SPANISH NOVELISTS 231 INDEX 252 CHAPTER I THE CID