Edición modernizada y anotada del manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid de El acierto en el engaño y robador de su honra de Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez.

Abstract

This M.A. thesis presents a modernized edition of the play El acierto en el engano y robador de su honra, written in the 17th century by Luis de Belmonte Bermudez. The play is extant in the MS. 15009 of the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid and has not been previously edited. The Thesis contains an introduction, in which the most relevant problems of the edition are discussed, including, for example, the fact that the MS. was greatly censored. The text is on occasions difficult to read and presents some problems when deciding which parts should be included and which excluded. Three different scribes can be distinguished and the study of their handwriting and work is one of the most outstanding problems of this edition. The second part of the Thesis consists of the actual edition of the play. The punctuation and the orthography have been modernized, except in those cases where the phonetics of the text could be affected. The third part contains philological and paleographical annotations, intended to clarify different aspects of the MS. and obscure passages. The philological notes attempt to elucidate the meaning of cultured references, ambiguous sentences, ... and try to shed light on some grammatical aspects of the language of the text.