Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40420

Call Number

PQ6217.A2 C664 v.17/n.8

Title Page

Comedia: El principe prodigioso, y defensor de la fe. /

De don Juan de Matos Fragoso, y de Don Agustin Moreto.

Caption Title

Comedia

Imprint

Madrid : año de 1802. Se hallará en las Librerías de Quiroga calle de las Carretas y de la Concepcion Gerónima; en las mismas Librerías se venden sueltas y por docenas con equidad un gran surtido de Comedias antiguas, Tragedias y Comedias modernas, Saynetes y Entremeses., [1802]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Physical Description

32 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-D⁴

General Notes

Catchwords: none.
Urzáiz Tortajada discusses the problematic attributions of this play to Pérez de Montalván, Matos Fragoso, and Moreto.
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon with reduced price for quantity purchase.
First ed apparently in El mejor de los mejores librosde comedias (Alcalá: María Fernández, 1651), which says half by Matos, half by Moreto. The website Moretianos.com lists and publishes it as collab by those two.

Citation Reference

Urzáiz Tortajada, H. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVII, p. 430, 472, 511.
Szmuk, S.E. "A Descriptive Catalog of a Collection of Comedias Sueltas in the Hispanic Society of America." Dissertation, City University of New York, 1985, no. 379.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

No. 8 of 18, in vol. 17 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS EN COLABORACION.

Subject/Genre/Themes

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700.

Genre/Form data

rbgenr--Booksellers' advertisements.
rbprov--NNH--Sammelbands.