Métodos de colaboración en las comedias de varios ingenios: el caso de El mejor amigo, el muerto

Abstract

There are several theories about the cooperation methods in collaborative plays in the Spanish Golden Age. There is speculation about the successive or simultaneous composition, the use of previous plot plans or the phase of correction of drafts. There is also controversy about the reasons they collaborated: last minute commissions, literary sociability, experimentation or commercial appeal. Each play should to be analyzed before drawing general conclusions. This article studies the case of Belmonte, Rojas Zorrilla and Calderón’s El mejor amigo, el muerto to try to elucidate what collaboration methods were used by its authors.