June 26, 2014, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsTexas collection of comedias sueltas and Spanish theater available for research and in online database The Texas Collection of Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater is available for research. Individual records for each suelta are also available in an online database, providing extensive information about the collection. The collection includes more than 15,000 “comedias sueltas,” a generic term for plays published in small pamphlet format in… read more
June 17, 2014, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsCataloging project reveals previously unknown copy of a comedia suelta The cataloging of the Texas collection of comedias sueltas at the Harry Ransom Center—funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloguing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program—has proven to be a great success in revealing unknown jewels of early printed theater in Spain. One such jewel is Juan… read more
November 5, 2013, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsZarzuelas: The music of the sueltas As cataloging of the Texas collection of comedias sueltas continues at the Harry Ransom Center, new features about these plays continue to be identified. The sueltas collection comprises nearly 14,000 titles published from the second half of the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century. More than half of the… read more
