Querer por solo Querer: To Love only to Love - Hurtado de Mendoza, Antonio 1586-1644; Fanshawe, Richard Sir 1st Baronet 1608-1666 (s.l. s.n., 1671)
Play, "Drammatic Romance", in 3 acts, ending with a tournament ballet for 6 ladies dressed as men
Querer por solo querer, was published with Mendoza's consent; it is included in a volume (1623) containing his semi-official account of the performances at Aranjuez in 1622."Querer por solo querer To love only for love sake : a dramatick romance : represented at Aranjuez, before the King and Queen of Spain, to celebrate the birthday of that King, by the Meninas, which are a sett of ladies, in the nature of ladies of honour in that court, children in years, but higher in degree (being many of them daughters and heyres to grandees of Spain) than the ordinary ladies of honour, attending likewise that queen / written in Spanish by Don Antonio de Mendoza 1623 ; paraphrased in English, anno 1654 ; together with the Festivals of Aranwhez."
Might be an incomplete part of a larger publication of 1671 (?London, Printed by William Godbid, 1670 ?)https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A45225.0001.001?view=toc
Incomplete? Title page, dedication, casting etc missing. Text bound in white vellum cover, named "VARIA" on the spine.
Translated into English by Sir Richard Fanshawe, afterwards ambassador at Madrid, in a posthumous volume published in 1671.
cover notes in pensil and ink in different hands, including: "F. Stern 1745 / const: 1d" (published by F. Stern, first edition 1745?)"Henry Reijncke 5P 8 pence" (ex libris?)
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Play (theater)