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8..DJUiJiLI-IJJ ß~E XJLE CJiJOJJ-IJULIJS-S Published twice a.year by the comediantes - an informal group of all those interested in the comedia. Vol. I March, 19i*9No» X HEPORT ON THE C0Í1EDIANTES ' DINNER IN NETi YORK Twenty three comediantes sat down to a succulent turkey dinner with all the trimmings at Bonat's French restaurant on December 29. H. C. Heaton acted as MC and opened the meeting with a provocative anecdote. Amid the clatter of dishes and the bu^. of other meetings nearby, Courtney Bruerton read scerai letters from Thornton Wilder on new materials for dating some of Lope's plays of vague spread. This touched off a lively discussion that brought forth a fruitful exchange of ideas, among which it was suggested by José_F. Montesinos that a study be made of the chrononological development of themes in Lope. It was decided to hold a conference meeting on the comedia next September in California with Claude E. Anibal as chairman. E. W. H. !.Ir. Wilder has succeeded in finding the key to the apparently haphazard order of titles in the Peregrino lists, an order which had baffled all specialists. In the first Peregrino, Mr. Wilder discovered that Lope, or another* listed titles according to the a.utores to whom the plays were sold. There is a Porres list, a Granados list, a Riquelme list, etc. · In the second Peregrino, he found that three or four titles were taken from one Parte¿ then three or four from the next, etc., again according to the autores who first performed the plays. That it was not Lope himself who' prepared this second list seems to be proved by the fact that, from Parte III, Inés de Castro, by Mejía de la Cerda, was included. By coirroaring the plays which Lope sold to a particular autor, Mr. Wilder has found the same distinguishing physical traits in their graciosos. He has found evidence that Pinedo had a black gracioso and a black soubrette. Mr. Wilder believes that Peribáñez cannot be later than l608, since it is a play performed by Porres, and after the Madrid Corpus of 160$, when porres revived four old plays. If Peribáñez had been written by then, he feels that Porres would have played it, Mr, Wilder's investigations, accurate in their detail and based on proven facts, promise most interesting and important results. C. B. This issue has been made possible through the cooperation of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese of the University of Wisconsin, Mrs. Virginia Kaye, Secretary . ...

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