On Edwin Honig's Calderon and the Seizures of Honor

NOTES ' Cayetano Alberto de La Barrera, Nueva biografía, in Obras de Lope de Vega, publicadas por la Real Academia Española, 15 vols. (Madrid, 1890-1913), I, 85. This same biographer mentions that Lope passed through Seville in 1582 on his way to Cádiz (p. 28), but does not elaborate on what he meant by "anteriores épocas en que visitó a Sevilla." 2 H. Rennert and A. Castro, Vida de Lope de Vega ( 1919; reprinted, Salamanca: Anaya, 1968), p. 140. 3 Lope de Vega, 2nd ed. (Madrid: Gredos, 1969), p. 11. 4 See José F. Montesinos, "Para la cronolog ía de las 'Rimas humanas,' " in Estudios sobre Lope, 2nd ed. (Salamanca: Anaya, 1967), pp. 236-44. La hermosura de Angélica and Rimas were published in Madrid in 1602. 5 See Rennert and Castro, p. 149. 6 Cf. the speculations concerning the effects of his absences from Michaela on his sonnets, in Montesinos, "Para Ia cronología de las 'Rimas humanas,' " pp. 242-44. 7 In the prologue of this edition, Lope explains his reasons: "Viendo imprimir cada día más mis comedias de suerte que era imposible llamarlas mías, y que en los pleitos de esta defensa siempre me condenaban los que tenían más solicitud y dicha para seguirlos , me he resuelto a imprimirlas por mis originales; que aunque es verdad que no las escribí con este ánimo, ni para que de los oídos del teatro se transladaran a la censura de los aposentos, ya lo tengo por mejor que ver la crueldad con que despedazan mi opinión algunos intereses. Este será el primer tomo, que comienza por esta novena parte, y así irán prosiguiendo los demás." Reprinted in Rennert and Castro, p. 241. 3 Marta de Nevares ( Marcia Leonarda ) and Juan Antonio de Vera y Zúñiga received two. For further information, see Thomas Case, "Lope de Vega's Parte Dedications," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 6(1972), 387-406. 9 The Spongia, written by Pedro de Torres Ramila, is now lost. Lope's supporters defended him in the Expostulate spongiae ( 1618 ) . See Joaquin de Entrambasaguas, Lope de Vega y los preceptistas aristotélicos (una guerra literaria del Siglo de Oro), (Madrid , 1932). 10In Parte XVI, reprinted in Obras de Lope de Vega, 6, 69. "Bulletin Hispanique, 65 (1963), 20-34. The letter sent to Lope by the Sevillians was first published by José María Asensio in his monograph Don Juan de Arguijo (Madrid, 1883). 12Seris, p. 23. 13In Parte XV, reprinted in Obras de Lope de Vega, 3, 309. In the dedication of El rùstico del cielo in Parte XVHI (1623) to the Sevillian poet, Francisco de Quadros y Salazar, Lope may also be referring to schooling in Seville: "Dejando aparte los estrechos lazos de nuestra amistad, continuada por tan largos años, y comenzada en los principios de nuestra vida, desde los rudimentos de las primeras letras, causas que me obligan a mayores memorias , . . . etc." The reference is vague. (See Obras de Lope de Vega, 5, 237) In the same dedication, Lope alludes to their days together at the University of Alcalá. 14See Francisco A. de Icaza, "Niñez y mocedad de Lope," in Lope de Vega, sus amores y sus odios (México: Porrúa, 1962), p. 28. 15See Francisco A. de Icaza, "El teatro de Juan de la Cueva," op. cit., pp. 210-20. 16Lope also cherished his memories of Valencia , where he had lived in exile, and visited in 1599 and 1616. Only two Valencians received dedications: Guillen de Castro and Sebasti án Jaime. ON EDWIN HONIG'S CALDERÓN AND THE SEIZURES OF HONOR 0A. A. Parker, University of Texas Edwin Honig has brought together the separate studies, published between 1961 and 1971, of the five Calderón plays he has translated (La Dama Duende, El alcalde de Zalamea, La devoci ón de la cruz, A secreto agravio, secreta venganza [1961] and La vida es sueño [1970], together with his two articles on Calderonian Honor. To this previously published material he has added initial and concluding chapters. Honig claims that "no comprehensive 68 study of Calderón's works...