Abstract

This essay is devoted to the editorial treatment of passages marked for possible omission, with or without brief marginal notes and suggested alterations, in autograph and partially autograph manuscripts of Calderón de la Barca. Comparing the calligraphy of the notes and the ink color employed in marking the passages with Calderón’s handwriting in the text of the manuscript, I investigate to what degree it is possible to determine which cuts the playwright might have suggested, accepted, or rejected, and the treatment of such passages by certain editors. I also consider certain evidence we can derive from the handwriting in the cast lists of some calderonian manuscripts.