NOTES ON THE TEXT OF A SECRETO AGRAVIO SECRETA VENGANZA

Abstract

Some years ago I wrote an article on A secreto agravio secreta venganza, which was printed in Clavileño 9, 1951, entitled “La discreción de don Lope de Almeida”. In it I said: “Todas las citas que hago de A secreto agravio secreta venganza proceden de la edición de Astrana Marín, Madrid, 1945, que es una transcripción del manuscrito autógrafo que se conserva en la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid”. The word “autógrafo” was a mistake, and I apologise for it. Here are Astrana Marín's words: “Los dramas A secreto agravio, secreta venganza, El mágico prodigioso, Yerros de naturaleza y El mejor amigo el muerto son textos definitivos. El primero va transcrito de la copia original, ms. 14.927 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid …”

BSS Subject Index:

• CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA, PEDRO (1600–1681)
• A SECRETO AGRAVIO, SECRETA VENGANZA [P. CALDERÓN]
• TEXT/TEXTUALITY/INTERTEXTUALITY

Notes

¹Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Obras completas—Dramas. Tercera edición, revisada (Madrid 1945), 50. All references to Astrana Marín refer to this edition.

²See Astrana's footnotes on pp. 287 and 295.

³Calderón de la Barca: Dramas de honor. I. A secreto agravio, secreta venganza. II. El médico de su honra. El pintor de su deshonra.Clás. cast. (Madrid 1956).

¹“¿ Conocemos el texto verdadero de las comedias de Calderón?”, BRAE, V (1916), 413–21.

²“Ensayo sobre la vida y obras de D. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Madrid 1924), 184–88.

³ Op. cit., pp. 16–118.

⁴“On the Segunda parte of Calderón”, Hispanic Review, V (1937), 37–51. See also Everett W. Hesse, “The Publication of Calderón's plays in the seventeenth century”, PQ, XXVII (1948), 37–51, and M. Oppenheimer, Jr., “Addenda on the Segunda parte of Calderón”, HR, XVI (1948), 335–40.

¹1 shall quote from Valbuena Briones's edition unless otherwise stated. It is in my opinion superior to Astrana's, and the lines are numbered in each act.

¹Professor A. A. Parker pointed out the significance of this variant to me when he kindly read an early draft of this article.

¹ Op. cit., Prólogo, p. Ixxxvi.

²“Scene division in Calderón's El alcalde de Zalamea”, HR, XIX (1951), 66–71. It is a pity that Valbuena Briones missed this article.

¹ Op. cit., p. 44.

¹ I should perhaps have informed my readers that MS 14.927 is listed in A. Paz y Melia's Catálogo de las piezas del teatro que se conservan en el departamento de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional, I, segunda edición, Madrid, 1934, no. 33² 7^: “30 hojas en 4°. Copia hecha en 1635 por el librero Diego Martínez de Mora”. I must thank Professor A. A. Parker and Professor A. E. Sloman for their searching and pertinent criticisms of the early draft of this article. My debt to Mr. F. J. Norton, who allowed me to consult his copy of QC before it was acquired by the Cambridge University Library, is very great indeed.