Abstract

Due to the banning of printing permissions for comedies and novels, the calderonian works lived various years on stage rather before being able to be printed.With the banning over, the vicissitudes that they went through during this period, that is, different performances that lead to different copies of the text depending on the company that had it, erroneous attributions, etc., harmed the poet’s comedies recovery work and, in some cases, diminished the quality of the final printed text.This is seen in the case of El príncipe constante, which closes the Primera parte de comedias (1636) of Calderón. It is an untidy edition which makes the current editor’s work difficult; he will have to turn to other reliable testimonies to rectify the edition’s mistakes in order to provide the reader with a text that is as close as possible to the poet’s hypotetical will.