Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

35872

Call Number

SC65 C100 650C v.20

Title Page

Comedia famosa. El diablo predicador /

del doctor don Francisco de Malaspina.

Caption Title

Comedia famosa

Imprint

[Spain : s.n., 16--?]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Physical Description

[34] p. ; 21 cm (4to)

General Notes

Urzáiz Tortajada identifies Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez as author.
There are several plays with this title: by Lope ("De entre lóbregas cavernas...", BNE, Mss/15084)
by Francisco de Malaspina (Ha 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.)

Citation Reference

Urzáiz Tortajada, H. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVII, p. 160, 161, 416, 417, 663, 721.

Local Notes

Bound with several other items in a volume with the call number SC65 C100 650C v.20.