Abstract

The definition of the Calderonian canon is not easy.Three canons are examined in this work: the academic, which recognizes between twenty and thirty titles as central in its production; that of the student (that presumably does not differ much from the unspecialized, cultured public), which is reduced to two or three titles; and the scenic, which distinguishes between a very limited cast of works whose stagings are repeated, and a wider list (close but not the same as that of the academic canon) of those which have only been offered in the past forty years of counted stagings. There remains, moreover, much Calderón to discover.