Abstract:Gabriel Téllez’s autobiography offers fascinating questions for scholars. The present essay brings new material to light and speculates on Tirso de Molina’s family. We argue that a particular nephew of Tirso existed in reality (despite some twentiethcentury critical myths), because otherwise there would be no viable theory for the transmission of the playwright’s texts from manuscript to printed Parte , specifically the Partes II-V. The essay also treats Tirso’s direct knowledge of Luis de Camões and the proba… Show more
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