21
I quote from A. Cortina's edition (Buenos Aires, 1942), p. 19. He attributes the work to Cristóbal de Villalón, but this is now regarded as doubtful.
22
La novela picaresca española, edited by A. Valbuena Prat (Madrid, 1962), p. 236.
23
La novela picaresca, pp. 702-03. The expression «protesting too much» seems justified here; the late Professor R. O. Jones remarked that «the moral frequently bears no relation to the story, which on the whole is straightforwardly entertaining in character»: The Golden Age: Prose and Poetry (London, 1971), p. 132.
24
See E. Cotarelo y Mori, Bibliografía de las controversias sobre la licitud del teatro en España (Madrid, 1904); and E. M. Wilson, «Nuevos documentos sobre las controversias teatrales: 1650-1681», Actas del Segundo Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas (Nimega, 1967), pp. 155-70.
25
Said by Pedro de Tapia in 1649: Wilson, «Nuevos documentos...», p. 161.
26
Quoted by A. Rodríguez-Moñino, Diccionario bibliográfico de pliegos sueltos poéticos (siglo XVI) (Madrid, 1970), pp. 87-88. Only a few years before, Don Quixote's innkeeper had proclaimed his faith in the printed word even more confidently; for were not chivalresque novels licensed by the royal council, which would scarcely allow the printing of lies? (Don Quixote, 1, 32).
27
See the edition of F. López Estrada (Madrid, 1969), pp. 89-91 (lines 900-29).
28
See M. C. García de Enterría, «Un memorial, casi desconocido, de Lope de Vega», Boletín de la Real Academia Española, 51 (1971), 139-60; her Sociedad y poesía de cordel en el barroco (Madrid, 1973) has a reduced facsimile of the memorandum between pages 88 and 89.
29
M. Agulló y Cobo, «La inquisición y los libreros españoles en el siglo XVII», Cuadernos bibliográficos, 28 (Madrid, 1972), 146-48.
30
C. M. Cipolla, Literacy and Development in the West (Harmondsworth, 1969), p. 115.