Annotated Edition of the Entremez “El Enchantment and Disenchantment in the zanfoña and the Difference and Fraud of las lenguas”, an Unpublished Portuguese Play from the 18th Century
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entremez, 18th-century theatre, theatrical manuscriptAbstract
In this article, we present a proposal for an annotated edition of the eighteenth-century interlude El encanto y desencanto en la zanfoña y la Diferencia y Burla de las Lenguas, accompanied by a brief introductory study. This unpublished play is found in manuscript 8601 at the National Library of Portugal, in a notebook that belonged to an unknown Fr. ML, ‘Religious Preacher of S. Francisco da Província dos Algarves.’ This interlude is of great relevance for studies of short theater, since, in addition to being a bilingual work (in Spanish and Portuguese), it presents an equally unpublished plot. In this first edition of the play, in addition to modernizing the text, we provide pertinent information about the interlude genre, the typical characters present in the work, and the manuscript, which is dated 1712.
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