Lisi desdeñosa, unpublished comedy by García de la Huerta: data for a scenario

Abstract

Raised in this article the date of composition of the new comedy from Garcia de la Huerta, Lisi desdeñosa, rescued by Carratalá Rios in 1985, and cited by Moratín in its «Catálogo de piezas dramáticas publicadas en España desde principios del siglo XVIII hasta la época presente». The author, once described the manuscript of Huerta (17450-1 BN) reviewed their motivations and thematic and formal, faithful to the eighteenth-pastoral comedy, postulates the non-definitive text as a hypothesis and argues that the manuscript was written by the author Zafra from around 1765, three decades before the date commonly accepted (1780/1782). Their argument is based on the intertextual dialogue between different passages of the autograph of the comedy and several love poems of Garcia de la Huerta, edited in their Obras poéticas (1778-79 and 1786), analyzed at different levels, as well as other evidence extratextual, to establish the priority of the comedy about the poems. Three appendages facsimile reproductions of some pages of manuscript and printed poem, «Romance amoroso», support the hypothesis proposed.