Professor Arizpe's edition is based on the Madrid 1671 edition of Santos's work. All four surviving eighteenth-century editions have been collated, allowing the editor to arrive at a putative stemma indicating the existence of a lost common source and two further lost printed texts. Identification of sources is followed by discussion of Menippean satiric tradiition and pre-iluminismo as they related to El Rey Gallo.VICTOR ARIZPE is Professor of Spanish at Texas A & M University.
