Note 531 — SECOND SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century. (continued 2)

Satisfactory accounts of the various collections and editions of the dramas, and other less important works of Calderon, are contained in Dieze’s Remarks on Velasquez, p. 242 and p. 341. The dramas of Calderon, which La Huerta has published in his Teatro Hespañol, afford but a partial idea of the poet’s talent; for those he has selected are all Comedias de Capa y Espada, two only excepted; and of these two, one, which is styled a Comedia heroyca, belongs to the mythological class.