The aim of this paper is to present a reading of La Dorotea, one of the latest books of Lope de Vega, leaving apart the biographical approachs and the idea of the text only as a continuation of Celestina. Thus, we intend to analyze in these pages another way, reading a poetry of despair and the presence of the elegiac gender in order to establish some conclusions that contribute to the intellection of Lope de Vega 's universe.