Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

43177

Call Number

PQ6279.B4D53 [s.a.]b

Title Page

Comedia nueva. El diablo predicador, y mayor contrario amigo. /

Para hombres solos. En tres actos.

Variant Title(s)

Diablo predicador, y mayor contrario amigo
Mayor contrario amigo

Caption Title

Comedia famosa

Imprint

[Madrid] : Se hallará ésta, con un gran surtido de Comedias y de Saynetes, en Madrid en la Librería de Lopez, Calle de la Cruz número 3., [between 1778 and 1803]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Physical Description

24 pages ; 22 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-C⁴.

General Notes

The first two lines are: "Ha del obscuro centro del espanto, / estancia del dolor, mansion del llanto,". In the image, notice the abbbreviation used in the words "espanto" and "llanto".
Urzáiz Tortajada identifies Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez as author.
There are several plays with this title: by Lope (De entre lóbregas cavernasʺ, BNE, Mss/15084); by Francisco de Malaspina (ÆHa de ese centro oscuro!ʺ, Escogidas 14 (Madrid: Domingo García Morrás, 1661), in which it appears under its alternative title La fuerza de la verdad; and by un ingenio de esta corteʺ (ÆHa del oscuro reino del espanto!ʺ). The ingenio is usually reckoned to be Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez, and this is the commonest surviving version; there seem to be no early prints of the Lope play. Medel (1735) records both La fuerza de la verdad (p. 46) and El diablo predicador as by Malaspina (p. 32), and El diablo predicador as by Luis de Belmonte (p. 32). (Email communication from D. W. Cruickshank.)
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon.
Publication date based on bookseller's period of activity in Madrid, according to BnF authority record.

Citation Reference

Urzáiz Tortajada, H. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVII, p. 161.

Local Notes

Untrimmed.
HSA maroon buckram binding.

Subject/Genre/Themes

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700.

Genre/Form data

rbgenr--Booksellers' advertisements.
rbbin--NNH--Untrimmed edges.