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CHAPTER VI 
CELOS CON CELOS SE CURAN, Tirso de Molina 
The next play to be considered in this connection is Celos con 
celos se curan, by Fray Gabriel Tellez (El maestro Tirso de 
Molina), (1571?-1648) , 95 The play is found in the Parte 
cuarta de las comedias del Maestro Tirso de Molina, recogidas 
por Don Francisco Lucas de Avila, sobrino del autor, ano de 
1635, Madrid. A manuscript of the play, con censuras de 10 
de diciembre de 1625 is in the Biblioteca Nacional. 96 
Altho none of the critics feels that Moreto is indebted great- 
ly to Tirso for El desden con el desden, several of them men- 
tion this play, among others, as dealing with the same subject. 
Klein, 97 speaking of El desden con el desden, includes Celos 
con celos se curan among the “Vorlage-Stiicke von ahnlichem 
Motiv”. 
Schack, after asserting that Moreto must have gotten the 
first idea for his work from Lope’s Los milagros del desprecio 
and La hermosa fea, continues : 
Ausserdem scheint ihm noch Tirso’s Zelos con Zelos se curan gegen- 
wartig gewesen zu sein . 98 
Carolina Michaelis, altho feeling that there is more resem- 
blance between Lope’s La vengadora de las mujeres and El 
desden con el desden, includes Celos con celos se curan among 
those plays “sobre el mismo asunto”. 99 
Alonso Cortes 100 rejects the play among those suggested as 
influencing Moreto. 
Celos con celos se curan 101 finds Cesar in love with Sirena, 
who does not want his close friend Carlos to know about it. 
Carlos, however, complaining to Cesar that he is keeping some- 
thing from him which is not in their agreement as friends, 
05 Fitzmaurice-Kelly, op. cit., p. 261. 
96 Paz y Melia (A.). Catdlogo de las piezas de teatro que se conservan en el De- 
partamento de Manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, 1899, No. 563. 
97 op. cit., Vol. XI, Part I, p. 412. 
98 op. cit., Vol. Ill, p. 355. 
99 op. cit., p. 258. 
100 op. cit., Prologo, p. 21. 
101 Based on the text of the Biblioteca de autor es espamoles, Vol. V, Madrid, 1850, 
pp. 364-380. 
