21
«Al lector. Anticipadas disculpas a las objecciones que pueden ofrecerse à la impression destos Autos».
22
Calderón also listed Los Empeños de seis horas and Los Empeños de un plumage. An omission of another title which began with the same two words would be easy. The play which Calderón referred to as San Iuán de Dios was listed by Vera Tassis as El Mejor padre de Pobres.
23
«Ni este [i. e., the auto attributed to Rojas Zorrilla entitled Los obreros del Señor], ni la Comedia de Bien vengas mal, si vienes solo, se auia de arrogar Don Pedro» Al que leyere. In fact Los obreros del Señor is Calderón's La siembra del Señor.
24
I have italicized the play titles in this quotation.
25
Everett W. Hesse, «Courtly Allusions in the Plays of Calderón», PMLA, LXV (1950), 544-47; Maura, op. cit., I, 226, 249, 256, 270, 284, etc.
26
E. M. Wilson, «Textos impresos y apenas utilizados para la biografía de Calderón», Hispanófila, No. 9 (1960).
27
In compiling the material for this paper I have found useful Everett W. Hesse's article «The Publication of Calderón's Plays in the Seventeenth Century», Philological Quarterly, XXVII (1948), 37-51. I must also thank J. E. Varey, of Westfield College, University of London, for some useful comments on this article.