Hubbard Rose Constance. Who Wrote the Segunda parte of La hija del aire?. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire , tome 54, fasc. Calderon, "Hija fui de Ananias". The Play and the Problem. Revived by ninteenth-century German scholars, La hija del aire, a comedia in two parts, later found favor with the the Generation of More recently A. When the two parts of the play were performed before the king and queen on the 13th and 16th of November, , respectively, Calderon was clearly listed as the author of each.
Yet, a comedia entitled La hija del ayre had already been published in Parte quarenta y dos de diferentes autores Zaragoza, , where it was attributed to Antonio Enriquez Gomez. The play contained in this Zaragoza volume is identical with the Segunda Parte presented on November 16, That the Segunda Parte of La hija del aire was originally attributed to Enriquez Gomez is neither a readily accessible nor widely known fact. Many scholars would.
The standard reference books which catalogue the various collected volumes published in the seventeenth century are not particularly illuminating. No trae los nombres de los autores".
And surely it would not occur to a Calderonista to search for the title under the listing of Enriquez Gomez1 works. That any play long considered the work of a distinguished dramatist could have been attributed to and may have been written by a minor figure merits investigation. The present study will, therefore, present the case for Enriquez Gomez, examine the evidence available and allow him his day in court.
At this point, it becomes necessary to divorce the Segunda Parte from the Primera Parte. There is no reason to assume, as Edwards does, that the two parts of La hija del aire were written expressly for presentation at court in Indeed, the chronological priority of the Segunda Parte suggests that the Primera Parte was composed as a dramatic prologue introducting the tragic events depicted in the original.
