Most historians and literary critics describe Spanish GoldenAge society as antiSemitic offering for example El Nio Inocente de La Guardia as confirmation that even great writers like Lope de Vega supported the marginalization of the descendants of judeoconversos. The aim of this book is to demonstrate that contrary to general critical opinion the Jew in Lopes comedia was often characterised with concealed sympathy through the employment of intricate literary techniques embedded in the text. Literary techniques such as subversive irony which is an expression of the converso perspective Erasmian dissimulato transposition and interrogation of negative stereotypical models facilitate the covert presentation of a positive image of a Jew.