Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

48693

Call Number

PQ6412.M94S2 1792

Title Page

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

de un ingenio de esta corte.

Caption Title

Comedia famosa

Imprint

[Spain : s.n., between 1801 and 1850]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Physical Description

36 pages ; (4to)

General Notes

Urzáiz Tortajada attributes play to Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez.
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.)
Print date deduced by BNE, based on typography.

Citation Reference

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

Local Notes

Bound with several other titles in a volume with the call number PQ6412.M94S2 1792.