Abstract

Ignacio Arellano's critical edition of El arból de mejor fruto offers a philologically secure text as well as fundamental contributions concerning the cultural context of the play's production. Moreover, several investigations about diverse topics of the play are included: the popularity of Solomon within the theatre of the Golden Age Period, the consolidation of the legend of the cross-tree and the public interest in the queen of Saba. This edition will be the indispensable starting point of further investigations dealing with El árbol de major fruto or La sibila del Oriente and, moreover, a useful tool of orientation within the texts that have spread the tales of Solomon and the legend of the cross-tree from antiquity to the Golden Age Period.