Pedro Calderón de la Barca in the controversy about Du Perron in the 18th century: Nasarre, Montiano, García de la Huerta

Abstract

Study of the treatment that receives Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s figure and works, in one of the most important polemics that developed in the Spanish Eighteenth Century, which turned concerning the Frenchman Louis Adrien Du Perron de Castrera. This research documents the vision provided by three of the participants in the controversy about the Spanish Baroque playwright: Blas Nasarre, in his Disertación o Prólogo sobre las comedias de España (1749), Agustín Montiano y Luyando, in both parts of his Discurso sobre las tragedias españolas (1750 & 1753), and Vicente García de la Huerta, in his Prólogo del Colector who opens his magnum opus, his great qualified work, entitled Theatro Hespañol (1785).