Dos dramaturgos navarros en la transición del siglo XVIII al XIX

Abstract

Cristóbal María Cortés is the oldest Navarran dramatist whose texts have survived to the modern day. He lived from 1740 to 1804. As poet, his works include an eclogue, laudatory poems and a poem written in Latin in hexameter. Of his dramatic works, we study here: Atahualpa, a neo-classical tragedy (the best known and most studied); Epónina o el amor conyugal, Sancha de Navarra (tragedies) and Nuestra señora del Romero (a somewhat swashbuckling religious comedy). Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano was also an author who marked the literary transition from the XVIII to the XIX century. He was a popular poet, albeit of no great prominence (“anthology” in tome III of Poetas líricos del siglo XVIII, tome 67 of the BAE...