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Note on the Authorship of the Spanish Jesuit Play of San Hermenegildo, 1580

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Armando Garzon-Blanco
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Louisiana State University

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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1974

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Notes

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1 In the article “Gesuiti,” Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo, V (Roma 1958), p. 1171Google Scholar, reference is made to the anonymous History of San Hermenegildo. Wilson, Edward M. and Moir, Duncan, The Golden Age: Drama 1492–1700 (New York, 1971), p. 28, refer to the anonymous Tragedy of San HermenegildoGoogle Scholar.

2 Wilson and Moir, p. 28: “The most famous Jesuit play of the time is the anonymous Tragedia de San Hermenegildo, performed in the college of Seville.” See also Soriano, Justo Garcia, El Teatro Universitario y Humamstico en España (Toledo, 1945), pp. 8485Google Scholar.

3 Garcia Soriano, Note #2, p. 86.

4 Rennert, Hugo Albert, The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega (New York, 1909), pp. 2325Google Scholar.

5 Sánchez-Arjona, Jose, Noticias referentes a los Anales del Teatro en Sevilla desde Lope de Rueda hasta fines del siglo XVII (Sevilla, 1898), pp. 4142Google Scholar.

6 Sánchez-Arjona, p. 39; and Garcia Soriano, p. 87.

7 Rennert, p. 23.

8 Sánchez-Arjona is indefinite in dating the production of the play of San Hermenegildo. See p. 38.

9 Sánchez-Arjona, p. 37; and Garcia Soriano, Note #3, p. 87. Both refer to page 202 of Matute's manuscript, entitled: “Noticias relativas a la historia de Sevilla que no constan en sus Anales, recogidas de diversos impresos y manuscritos.” (“Information relevant to the history of Seville which is not recorded in the Annals, gathered from various pamphlets and manuscripts.”)

10 Garcia Soriano, p. 112.

11 Soriano, Garcia, p. 86. Based on evidence from Ortiz de Zuñiga's Anales de Sevilla Año de 1580Google Scholar.

12 Rennert, p. 23.

13 Garcia Soriano, p. 87.

14 Sánchez-Arjona, pp. 38–39; and García Soriano, p. 87.

15 García Soriano, p. 113.

16 “Papeles varios, jurídicos, morales e históricos de diversos autores, escritos en varias ocasiones … son documentos manuscritos … del Padre Pedro de Montenegro de la Compañia de Jesus que los recogió en este tomo en el año 1661.”

17 “Historia del Colegio de San Hermenegildo,” Caja A-40, University Library, Granada, fol. 318–320 and 322–325.

18 “Historia del Colegio de San Hermenegildo,” fol. 322–323.

19 Johannes von Müller, S. J., Das Jesuitendrama in den Ländern Deutscher Zunge vom Anfang (1555) bis zum Hochbarock (1665), Vol. II (Augsburg, 1930), p. 110Google Scholar; and Sánchez-Arjona, pp. 113–114; and Moglia, Raúl, “Una representación de colegio en la colonia,” in Revista de Filología Hispánica, Año IV (Jan.-March, 1944), p. 83Google Scholar.

20 Moglia, p. 83.