News & Updates
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Spotlight – Four Broadsides at John Carter Brown Library
DateSeptember 10, 2025CategoryNew discoveryThe John Carter Brown Library has digitized four broadsides announcing theatrical performances in late 18th-century Mexico City. Explore the images and details in our post below.
Four Printed Announcements of Theatrical Performances in Mexico City
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Spotlight – A Picture of Madrid by Christian Augustus Fischer
DateSeptember 7, 2025CategoryNew discoveryA book published in London presenting Madrid’s theaters through the eyes of a German traveler at the end of the 18th century. Explore the images and details in our post below.
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Entremezes Ibéricos & Teatro Breve
DateSeptember 4, 2025CategoryNew discoveryThis new website with more than 4,000 records in its database is dedicated to short forms of theater in several Iberian languages. The strength of this resource is in offering researchers a powerful tool for the study of ephemera, and how it enables investigation into social history, literary history and printing history.
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Ohio Wesleyan University Sueltas Added to the Database
DateSeptember 1, 2025CategoryCollection update, UpdatesTwenty-six sueltas, divided between two bound volumes from Ohio Wesleyan University’s special collections, have now been added to the database. Each record includes images of its first and final pages.
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Ohio Wesleyan University Call Number: PQ6282 .B54 1700z -
University of California, Davis Sueltas Added to the Database
DateAugust 4, 2025CategoryCollection update, UpdatesThe University of California, Davis collection of 28 sueltas has now been added to the database. Each record includes images of the first and final pages, and seven of these sueltas, digitized by Davis, are fully available through HathiTrust. You can identify a digitized suelta by the “Digitized Copy” indicator in its record.
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University of California Davis Call Number: PQ7297.A1 C5 -
University of California, San Diego Sueltas Added to the Database
DateJuly 21, 2025CategoryCollection update, UpdatesThe University of California, San Diego’s collection of 187 sueltas has now been added to the database. For each record, images of the first and final pages have been provided.
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Notably, 25 of the sueltas are editions not previously documented in our database and 6 are entirely new titles. The six are listed below.
- Bayle de el cozinero.
Sevilla : Imprenta de Don Juan de Basoas, [between 1741 and 1749] - Entremes del entretenido don Calzeta.
Sevilla : Por Joseph Padrino, [between 1748 and 1775] - Entremes del cortacaras. / D. Agustin Moreto
Sevilla : Por Joseph Padrino, [between 1748 and 1775] - Entremes de los Cestos, y Arnania.
Sevilla : Por Joseph Padrino, [between 1748 and 1775] - Entremes de los Baladrones, Jaques, y matones…
Sevilla : Por Joseph Padrino, [between 1748 and 1775] - Aliatar tragedia en cinco actos… / D. Angel de Saavedra, Remirez de Baquedano
Sevilla : Imprenta de Caro, 1816
- Bayle de el cozinero.
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Michigan State University Sueltas Added to the Database
DateJune 23, 2025CategoryCollection update, UpdatesMichigan State University’s collection of 161 sueltas has been added to the database. Each record includes images of the first and last pages. Most of the sueltas in this collection have been bound into volumes. While this census focuses on plays printed before 1834, the larger collection associated with these bound volumes at Michigan State University also includes later materials not documented here.
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Notably, sixteen of the plays are editions or titles not previously documented in our database; These are listed below.
Newly added titles
- Los amantes de Siracusa
Barcelona: Librería de M. Saurí y Compañía, 1830. - El engaño feliz
Madrid: Mateo Repullés, 1821. - La gazza ladra
Madrid: Imprenta de la Minerva Española, 1822. - La hija del aire [Ópera]
Madrid: Imprenta de la Minerva Española, 1822. - El hijo natural
Madrid: Imprenta Real, [1787]. - El juicio universal
Barcelona: Imprenta de José Torner, [1828]. - La piedra del parangón
Madrid: Imprenta de I. Sancha, 1826.
Newly added editions
- El abate l’Épée y el asesino
Valencia: Imprenta de José Gimeno, [between 1822 and 1832?]. - Afectos de odio y amor
En Sevilla, Imprenta de Joseph Padrino, [between 1748 and 1775?]. - Los amantes de Salerno
[Spain]: Se hallarà en Casa de Joseph Gomez, [17–?]. - El baron de Felcheim
Madrid: Imprenta de la Minerva Española, 1822. - La Celmira
Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1826. - El diablo mudo [Auto]
[Spain: s.n., 17–?] - La discreta y la boba
Valencia: En la Imprenta de Estévan, [1816]. - Otelo
Madrid: Imprenta de la Minerva Española, 1822. - Sueños hay que verdades son [Loa & Auto]
[Spain: s.n., 17–?]
- Los amantes de Siracusa
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Washington State University Sueltas Added to the Database
DateJune 10, 2025CategoryCollection update, UpdatesEighteen comedias from Washington State University’s Special Collections and Holland and Terrell Libraries have been uploaded to the database. Each record is accompanied by images of their first and last pages.
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Notably, two of the sueltas are editions not previously documented in our database. These are listed below.
- Comedia española, original y nueva, La pastora más constante y pastor duque de Alañía
[Madrid] : En la Imprenta Real, 1787 - Los dioses reunidos, o la fiesta de las musas: Prólogo, y El tutor enamorado: comedia en dos actos y en verso, con arias
[Madrid] : En la Imprenta de D. Antonio Muñoz del Valle, 1764
- Comedia española, original y nueva, La pastora más constante y pastor duque de Alañía
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Harvard University Sueltas Added to the Database
DateJune 4, 2025CategoryCollection update, UpdatesThe majority of Harvard University’s collection of sueltas has now been added to the database. A total of 661 plays are currently accessible, with several dozen still to be uploaded.
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University of Maryland Sueltas Added to the Database
DateMay 23, 2025CategoryCollection update, UpdatesThe collection of sueltas from the University of Maryland has been partially uploaded, with 1,462 items currently accessible to the public and approximately 100 remaining to be photographed.
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