41
Blanca de los Ríos suggested that the censor was Fray Alonso Remón, who was a Mercedarian like Tirso, and also a dramatist. The manuscript was sent for his perusal, and his approving signature is not on any of the remaining folios. However, the censor's hand is very different from Remón's signature on other plays and from that in other manuscripts thought to be in his hand. Much more work remains to be done to straighten out the tangle of different hands on this manuscript.
42
Gerardo Kurtz did the photography. He experimented with reflected infrared light, infrared luminescence, reflected ultraviolet light, and crossed or induced polarization. Photographs made with polarized light proved to be the most helpful. After experimentation with the usefulness of computer techniques in further separating the two ink tones, we will publish our results in greater detail for other researchers who might face the same problem.
43
Juana was named «beata» but not canonized, although the Vatican is still considering the case for her sainthood at present.
44
I owe this deduction to Don Cruickshank, who kindly read an earlier version of this paper.
45
Tirso, Cigarrales, 339.
46
It seems logical to assume, as did Wade, that it was Jiménez himself who wrote this commentary and certain other notations on the manuscript; he may have served as apuntador for Pinedo. However, the hand is very like that in the manuscripts generally considered to be Remón's autograph.
47
J. E. Varey, «Sobre un posible diccionario biográfico de actores españoles», in Homenaje a Simón Díaz (Kassel: Editorial Reichenberger, 1988) 641-644.
48
It does not pretend to be comprehensive. Omitted, for example, are valuable articles on individual actors and actresses such as those by Hannah Bergman on Juan Rana, and editions of individual plays which contain information on autores and companies, such as Charles Ganelin's recent edition of Claramonte's, La infelice Dorotea, which contains numerous company lists for Claramonte companies.
49
In the various studies by Varey and Shergold. See Appendix.