This is a close reading of a play by Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635)--a Spanish playwright, poet, and major figure of Spanish Baroque literature--titled El caballero de Olmedo. The study analyzes the comedia in terms of the literary and social conventions that it reflects: cortesia, brujeria, and alcahueteria.

One of the most colourful episodes in Moliere's career was the so-called Comic War, the controversy provoked by the successful production of L'Ecole des Femmes. Among the ultimately unsuccessful attempts by rival dramatists to discredit him and his theatre, the three comedies published in this volume were particularly notable.