The poetic Spanish drama of the “Golden Age,” along with the prose of Cervantes and the painting of Velazquez, marked one of the peaks of Spanish national culture of the late Renaissance, the most valuable contribution of the Spanish people to the common treasury of world culture. The four classic plays included in this collection by Spanish playwrights of the 17th century: Lope de Vega, Alarcon, Calderon and Moreto are only a small part of the magnificent legacy left to humanity by the Spanish genius. History does not know another era and another people with such a rapid flowering of dramatic art. The extraordinary richness of plots, the broad perspectives that Spanish theater opens up for the viewer and reader, the mastery of intrigue, the violent boiling of life overflowing - all this aroused the enthusiastic surprise of contemporaries and arouses constant interest today.