Ruano, Jose,Escudero Baztan, Juan Manuel.2009-03-232009-03-2319941994Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 33-05, page: 1399.9780315959163http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6672http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-11387This M.A. thesis offers for the first time a critical edition of Calderon's auto sacramental El indulto general. The thesis consists of: (A) an Introductory study, composed of the following sections: (1) general survey of the dramatic genre known as the auto sacramental or sacramental play, mystery plays in honour of the Holy Eucharist; (2) date of composition and performances of El indulto general; (3) critical analysis of the auto, with special emphasis on its allegorical nature; (4) a study of the textual transmission of the auto, using the calculus of variants to construct a bibliographical stemma in order to establish the best available copy-text; (5) editorial criteria used to reconstruct an eclectic edition of the auto based on the nine independently-derived extant witnesses. (B) The edited text of the auto; (C) Critical apparatus. The thesis also contains a Bibliography and an Index of words commented in the Philological Notes. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)139 p.Literature, Romance.Thesis