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CHAPTER IX 
A LO QUE OBLIGA EL DESDEN, Francisco Salado Garces 
The play A lo que obliga el desden is found in the thirty-fifth 
Parte , Comedias nuevas escogidas de los me j ores ingenios de 
Espana , con licencia, aho 1671, Madrid. 119 There is a ques- 
tion as to the authorship of the play. Klein 120 attributes it to 
Rojas Zorrilla, as does also Sehora Michaelis. 121 Alonso 
Cortes 122 considers the play as that of Francisco Salado Garces 
(flourished 1643) 123 and, whereas Klein and Sehora Michaelis 
suggest similarity with El desden con el desden, Alonso Cortes 
rejects the play as having nothing in common with the Moreto 
work. La Barrera, quoted above, bases his judgment that the 
play is by Salado Garces on the closing lines : 
Con que, Senado prudente, 
Acabara la comedia; 
Si los defectos que tiene 
Perdonais, como entendido, 
Del poeta, pues pretende, 
Siendo alfombra a vuestras plantas, 
Mostrar sus afectos siempre; 
Que si se juzgan Salcidos 
Mereceran mil laureles. (p, 236.) 
The play is number six in the collection and, on the index 
page, is attributed to Francisco de Roxas. On turning, how- 
ever, to the play itself, the name of Francisco Salado Garces 
appears below the title. 
The first act of A lo que obliga el desden 124 finds Aurora, 
Marquesa de Mantua, in love with Fadrique, nephew of the 
Pope, whom she raises to high position and favor, but who 
does not return her love. When suspicion seems strong 
against Fadrique for having killed a man, Aurora is forced to 
imprison him, but soon releases him at the suggestion of her 
cousin, Clavela, who recognizes him as the original of a picture 
she has taken from Estela, who also loves him. Clavela im- 
u9 Barrera, op. cit., p. 352. 
120 op. cit., p. 412. 
121 op. cit., p. 258. 
122 op. cit., p. 21. 
123 Cejador y Frauca, op. cit., p. 184. 
124 Based on the text of the thirty-fifth Parte, above-mentioned, pp. 191-236. 
