Occult Arts and Doctrine in the Theater of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

objective criteria will be utilized."Whenever possible, manuscript copies and early printed forms of the plays are referred to.Dr. Clark further explains his purpose (p. 30): "to accumulate all the possible non-Lopean elements in the comedias in order to determine whether they provide sufficient evi- dence to warrant rejection of these plays as being by Lope and thus contribute in a small way to the establishment of a canon of Lope's comedias.'"After the detailed scrutiny of each play in the manner described, there is a good summing up, and "Conclusions" reached (and I would say proven) are that "The accumulation of non-Lopean elements revealed in the study of these ten comedias provide sufficient evi- dence for rejecting the plays from a canon of the dramatist's authentic works."(p.177) The "résumé of the most noticeable non-Lopean elements in the plays studied" (pp. 178

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