El Mayor Encanto, Amor
El Mayor Encanto, Amor is a festival play by Calderón (Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1600-1681)[]
First performed for the Spanish King on St John's Night (Missummer Nighets Eve) 1835 and published in Madrid by María de Quiñónez, 1637.
Translated into Dutch as Ulysses op het Eiland van Circé
1809: Performed as a ballet in two acts entitled Ulysses op het Eiland van Circé, by a company of young people from the colony. The presentation, accompanied by the three act tragedy Le Comte de Comminge, ou Les Amans Malheureux (D'Arnaud), was done as a benefit for local Widow in straitened circumstances.
Kristiaan Aercke. 1994. Gods of Play: Baroque Festive Performances as Rhetorical Discourse. SUNY Press: pp. 139-158.[1]
Mary Parker. 1998. Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group: pp. 41-2.[2]
Judith Yarnall. 1994. Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress. University of Illinois Press: pp. 158ff.[3]
