CHAPTER X
The early editions of Góngora are named in the text; Rivadeneyra, vol. xxxii., reprints him in unsatisfactory fashion, but there is nothing better. Forty-nine inedited pieces by Góngora have been recently published by Professor Rennert in the Revue hispanique, vol. iv. Churton's essay on Góngora (1862) is learned, spirited, and interesting. Villamediana figures in Rivadeneyra's forty-second volume: D. Emilio Cotarelo y Mori's minute and judicious study (1886) is extremely important. Lasso de la Vega's monograph, already cited, on the Sevillan school, should be consulted for the poets of that group. Villegas and the minor poets may be read in Rivadeneyra, vol. xlii. Rioja has been admirably edited by Barrera (1867), who has supplied a most scholarly biography and bibliography: the additional poems issued in 1872 are more curious than valuable. Quevedo's prose works were edited by Aureliano Fernández-Guerra y Orbe with great skill and accuracy in Rivadeneyra, vols. xxiii. and xlviii.; his verse has been printed in vol. lxix. by Florencio Janer, who was not the man for the task. The new and complete edition, issued by the Sociedad de Bibliófilos Andaluces, and edited by D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, promises to be admirable, and will include much new matter—for instance, a pure text of the Buscón. As yet but one volume (1898) has been issued to subscribers. M. Ernest Mérimée, the author of an excellent monograph on Quevedo (1886), has given us a critical edition of Castro's Mocedades del Cid (Toulouse, 1890). Vélez de Guevara and Montalbán are exampled in Rivadeneyra, vol. xlv.: the prose of the former is in vol. xviii.
Hartzenbusch's twelve-volume edition of Tirso de Molina (1839-42) is incomplete, but it is greatly superior to the selection in Rivadeneyra, vol. v. D. Emilio Cotarelo y Mori's monograph on Tirso (1893) contains many new facts, stated with great precision and lucidity. Hartzenbusch's edition of Ruiz de Alarcón in Rivadeneyra, vo. xx., is the best and fullest.
Calderón's editions are numerous, but none are really good. Keil's (Leipzig, 1827) is the most complete; Hartzenbusch's, which fills vols. vii., ix., xii., and xiv. of Rivadeneyra, is the easiest to obtain, and is sufficient for most purposes. Mr. Norman MacColl's Select Plays of Calderon (1888) deserves special mention for its excellent introduction and judicious notes. M. Morel-Fatio's edition of El Mágico Prodigioso is a model of skill and accuracy. Two small collections of Calderón's verse were published at Cádiz, 1845, and at Madrid, 1881. Archbishop Trench's monograph (1880) and Miss E. J. Hasell's study (1879) are deservedly well known. D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo's lectures, Calderón y su Teatro (1881) are full of sound, impartial criticism. Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin Schmidt's Die Schauspiele Calderon's (Elberfeld, 1857) maintains its place by virtue of its sound and sympathetic criticism. The history of the autos is fully given by Eduardo González Pedroso in Rivadeneyra, vol. lviii. Edmund Dorer's Die Calderon-Litteratur in Deutschland (Leipzig, 1881) is useful and unpretending. D. Antonio Sánchez Moguel's study (1881) of the relation between the Mágico Prodigioso and Goethe's Faust is learned and ingenious, and D. Antonio Rubió y Lluch's Sentimiento del Honor en el Teatro de Calderón (Barcelona, 1882) is a very suggestive essay.
The select plays of Rojas Zorrilla and Moreto are contained in Rivadeneyra, vols. xxxix. and liv. There exists no good edition of Gracián: Carl Borinski's study entitled Baltasar Gracián und die Hoflitteratur in Deutschland (Halle, 1894) is a very commendable book, and M. Arturo Farinelli's criticism in the Revista crítica, vol. ii., is not only learned, but is warm in its appreciation of Gracián's perverse talent.