Spanish and Catalan Drama Collection

This collection of over 25,000 separately published Spanish and Catalan plays spans the period from the late seventeenth century to the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. It includes the library's holdings (some 2,000 in number) of comedias sueltas, which constitute the earliest and most valuable pieces of what is, by any account, an extraordinarily rich and varied collection of theatrical works. It has been reliably estimated that the collection represents about eighty percent of the total published production of the Spanish stage in the period between the 1830's and the 1930's