Abstract

The article discusses the validity of the texts that make the Second part of the comedies of Calderón de la Barca on the basis of previous works by the Grupo Calderón de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (GIC) that focused on one particular text each. A thorough analysis of texts such as El mayor encanto, amor, El médico de su honra or El mayor monstruo leads to state that, in general, the texts of the Second part should be used as basis texts for the edition of calderonian comedies, even though there is, in fact, a disequilibrium between the number of mistakes the texts of the comedies have.

Abstract

The aim of this article is, through a careful analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic elements of each of the three manuscripts from the 17th century that are preserved of Hado y divisa de Leonido y de Marfisa from Calderón (9373 and 6743 BNE and 8314 Arsenal Library Paris) and a comparison of its variants, demonstrate: the interdependence between the ms 9373 of the BNE and 8314 (both contain bief pieces and the Descripción from Fernández de León) as ms. 8314 is a copy of ms. 9373; the Parisian manuscript is the one that copied José Guerra to send to the imperial court; that both were written at the time of release, therefore, probably both derive from the copy that Peñarroja made of calderonian draft; that the ms 16743, however, is called copy of the as known pseudo Matos Fragoso and has many variations compared to the other two.