Las otras Raquel: El Diálogo trágico de José March y Borrás

Abstract

This paper deal with another text dedicated to treat with the traditional dramatic theme of the legend of Raquel, the Jewish of Toledo of which the Castilian King Alfonso VIII supposedly fell in love: Dialogo tragico. Intitulado La Raquel. Facil de egecutar en casas particulares. Sacado de la historia y adornado con intervalos de musica. Por un aficionado, written by the Castellon-born Jose March y Borras, a work not well known until the present, and not mentioned between the creations that historically dealt with those same issues. In this article, the Dialogo tragico is framed in the dramatic tradition in which it is inserted; it is dentified the group of works of the Enlightenment to which it belongs, and the historic literary genre that is its own; the data that is preserved about its unknown author is provided; the composition received by the same is studied; information are rescued about the printers who made it known in their century; and a modern edition of it is made, in order to make it available to interested readers. With everything, it has been tried to contribute to rescue an important part of Spanish bibliographical heritage, that, until now, it has remained in the shade, and to complete, in this way, the usually presented panorama of the Spanish culture and Literature of the age of the Enlightenment.