Cervantes, Hardy and 'La fuerza de la sangre' (PDF)

Chapter V: La fuerza de la sangre: The Original Edition and the Rosset Translation (p. 128)

1. Explanation.

Cervantes` La fuerza de la sangre and the other novelas knew an almost immediate success, as we have mentioned previously. There were several editions that Hardy could have consulted for La Force du sang. Assuming that he did not examine the manuscript copy (a theory implied by the Parfaicts` dating of the play) and also assuming that Hardy did not delay in writing the play after reading the original, then we must concede that he utilized one of the earlier editions as his point of departure.

The Spanish text we reproduce here should therefore be based on one such printing, and by definition it cannot reflect editions which chronologically follow La Force du sang.

Since we do not know the complete circumstances under which the play was written and have but a rather imperfect idea of the data and the date of composition, we cannot determine with absolute certainty which version of the story the dramatist followed.

If we hypothetically accept that Hardy did use a translation, as some critics have previously stated, and that the most likely one was the 1615 work by Francois de Rosset (published in Paris by Richer and reproduced in this chapter following the original), then the edition which concerns us should be the one to which that translator had access.

The edition followed seems to have been the one by Roger Velpio and Huberto Antonio, published in Brussels in 1614. Whether we accept the translation as Hardy`s immediate source or whether we believe in a firsthand examination of a Spanish original on his part, the 1614 text seems a reliable text for the present study.

It is sufficiently close in text and time to the princeps to represent the same basic information. Our concern in the present comparison is not to verify commas, periods and variant spellings, but to check similarities in ideas, content and

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