Adolfo de Castro's contribution to the bicentenary of Calderón de la Barca in 1881

Abstract

After the vindications of Calderón de la Barca on behalf of the conservative elite, in the early nineteenth century the poet would become the stereotipe representative of imperial Spain, the counter-reformist catholicism, as qualities of honor or virtue, and thus defining the authentic Hispanic feeling as representation of a «pre-borbon golden age» which should be aspired or return, a topic which would repeat in different moments of the century. The intention of this work is to analyse the participation of Adolfo de Castro as a member of this intellectually conservative group, in the acts of tribute paid to the illustrious author in 1881, on the occasion of the second centenary of his death.