Entre teatro y novela: honor y venganza en Lope de Vega (El toledano vengado y La prudente venganza)

This article studies the relation between novel and theatre, with special attention to theory of the Lope de Vega’s Arte Nuevo and the theory of the novel, as references metaliterary, present in his four novels (Novelas a Marcia Leonarda). After is analized the specific case of the novel La prudente venganza in relation with his plays in which he approaches the topic of the adultery, studying how along his literary path he presents different cases with similar solutions, but with diverse nuance: from bloody public and collective revenge to privat revenge. In the last plays Lope doesn’t defend the revenge, more explicitly in the novel than in the tragedy, in fact in thenovel he comments - as narrator – the events