Una refundición moretiana de una comedia de Claramonte: El valiente justiciero y El rey don Pedro en Madrid

Abstract

Agustín Moreto is one of the most outstanding authors of our Golden Theatre, because he was, in addition to Calderón, the main exponent of a form of composition that, together with collaborative writing, constitutes one of the most common dramaturgical modalities among secular poets: the rewriting. In this sense, the dramatic production of Agustín Moreto includes numerous motifs and arguments that were already present in the previous theater, especially in that of Lope de Vega. However, he was not the only playwright whom he took as a model, because he also consulted works by authors such as Tirso de Molina, Mira de Amescua, Guillén de Castro or Andrés de Claramonte. This work presents a rewriting of Moreto, El valiente justiciero, which starts from a text by Andrés de Claramonte, El rey don Pedro en Madrid y el infanzón de Illescas. Throughout the article, the most prominent similarities and differences between both comedies will be analyzed and it will be shown that the technique used by Moreto in his rewritings is very similar regardless of who the author of the source comedy is.