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Lope de Vega
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El arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo (The New Art of Writing Plays in This Time) by Lope de Vega was published in 1609.1
This poetic treatise served as the manifesto for the Spanish comedia, in which Vega rejected Neoclassical rules in favor of blending comedy and tragedy, utilizing metrical variety, and establishing public opinion as the ultimate arbiter of taste.21