Dos ejemplos de composición para las partes de Lope: las VII y VIII (no autorizadas) y las XVI y XX (autorizadas)

The corpus of Partes de comedias by Lope de Vega falls into two broad categories: on the one hand the unauthorized partes, that is, those that arose, so it would seem, without being overseen or controlled by the dramatist; and on the other, the authorized partes, those in whose preparation the author intervened. Given the variety of intentions and motivations between bookseller and playwright, when publication of dramatic works is considered, it would seem pertinent to ask oneself if the date of 1617, that of the publication of the first officially authorized parte, constitutes a difference in the way in which volumes were put together and organized, that is to say, in the selection process of the comedias and in the creation of possible effects of composition. More than a simple statement concerning the possible symmetry that might exist between auctorial control of the edition and the coherence of the volume, a consideration that allows the bringing to the fore of the enunciative context imposes itself. The present article proposes to study the question through a contrastive analysis of what might be called twin partes, the first of an unauthorized variety, the second of the authorized type. The partes under discussion are the VII and VIII partes, both of which were published in 1617, and the XVI and XX partes published respectively in 1621 and 1625.