Abstract

The Madrilenian Félix Lope de Vega Carpio (1562 1635) was the first Spanish playwright. As a privileged witness to his time and with an exquisite knowledge of the human soul, he managed to portray all the social and human reality of the Golden Age in his more than 700 plays. Illnesses and those who suffer them are to be found throughout his works. Many neurological diseases, such as apoplexy, melancholy, headaches or epilepsy, appear quite often in his plays. His descriptions are accurate and the ideas about each disease reflect the knowledge that existed during his time (galenic, medieval or renaissance).

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