Alejandro García-Reidy at the UAB

Manuscrit de "Mujeres y criados". Foto BNE

The discoverer of the Lope de Vega comedia “Mujeres y criados”, research member of the PROLOPE Group, will offer a conference on 30 October at 4 pm at the conference hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts. He will speak on how he found the manuscript, believed to be lost until the beginning of 2014.

27/10/2014

Alejandro García-Reidy, lecturer at the Syracuse University, will be offering a conference entitled “Cómo encontrar una aguja en un pajar: la recuperación de una comedia de Lope de Vega en el siglo XXI”. The conference will form part of the inauguration of the official master's degree in Spanish Language, Hispanic Literature and Spanish as a Foreign Language.

García-Reidy will explain the research process which led him to find “Mujeres y criados” this past January in the Spanish National Library (BNE): studying first the Catcom database of the University of Valencia, later finding the manuscript at the BNE and, finally, verifying the identity of the person who copied the work thanks to a computer system developed by the Manos Teatrales group of Duke University. The comedia was catalogued as a lost literary work until its discovery earlier this year.