Some alterations of this play were made with a view to the
English stage, where, spite of the slightness of many parts, I still
think it might be tried.
Its companion play, the Medico de su Honra, is far more famous;
has some more terrible, perhaps some finer, situations; but inferior,
I think, in variety of scene, character, and incident.
It may add a little to the reader's interest, as it did to mine, to
learn from Mr. Ticknor, that Calderon wrote a “Tratado defendiendo
la nobleza de la Pintura.”
