«No tendrás otros textos»: editar testimonios únicos del teatro del Siglo de Oro
Actas del XVIII Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Luigi Giuliani - Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italia - email
- Victoria Pineda - Universidad de Extremadura, España - email
Abstract
This volume contains the proceedings of the XVIII International Workshop on Textual Studies, which was held at the University of Perugia in March 2025, which focused on editing texts with single-witness traditions. The chapters present case studies of the transmission of Spanish Golden Age dramatic texts, in both manuscript and printed form. The aim of all the essays is to draw theoretical and methodological considerations from their analyses. These include the definition of a single witness, the differences between editing a playtext intended for performance and one intended for reading, error detection, the limits of the emendatio ope ingenii (conjectural correction), issues related to metrics and orthology, the textual behaviour of copyists and typesetters, and the author’s final intention. So far, debates on the editors’ intervention in single witness have ranged from a conservative approach which tends to leave difficult loci unresolved, to an overly corrective tendency that can irremediably distort the texts. Between these two poles, these essays aspire to establish specific guidelines for editing single-witness dramatic texts that can also be applied to multiple-witness traditions. The texts taken into account include samples from plays by Gil Vicente, Cristóbal de Mesa, Cepeda, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, and some of the anonymous playtexts copied in the late sixteenth-century Gondomar’s manuscript collection. The contributors are scholars with a remarkable experience in textual criticism in the orbit of two significant European projects on Spanish Golden Age drama: Italy’s TESPA and Spain’s PROLOPE. The International Workshops on Textual Studies were founded and directed by Luigi Giuliani and Victoria Pineda in 2004 at the University of Extremadura at Cáceres, were held at the University of Córdoba (Spain) in 2013, and moved to the University of Perugia in 2014.
Keywords Textus unicus • Gil Vicente’s theatre • El loco por fuerza • Error detection • Lope de Vega’s posthumous Partes • Codex unicus • Single textual witness • Dramatic structure and play segmentation • Repetition error • Theatrical manuscripts • AUTESO • Editing • Poetic meter in drama • Prologues • Textual Criticism • Playtexts • Metrics • Autorhymes • Spanish drama of the Golden Age • Siglo de Oro • Emendatio ope ingenii • Anticipation error • Textual materiality • Textual problems • Manuscript copies • Lope de Vega • Theatre • Conjectural correction • Spanish Golden Age drama • Iberian theatre of the sixteenth century • Textual editing and criticism • Author’s last will • El Grao de Valencia • Critical edition • Manuscripts • Textus receptus • Orthoepy • Francisco de Rojas • Los bandos de Sena • Comedia de la huida a Egipto • Single witness
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