The John Carter Brown Library holds a small collection of 25 late 18th - and early 19th -century comedias sueltas including some of the best authors of the Spanish Golden Age literary period (Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca, Ruiz de Alarcón, and Pérez de Montalbán). The Library collects across all genres that relate to the early Americas, and the comedias sueltas from the JCB's collection include New World subject matter and/or were reprinted in Lima during the colonial period.