Un viaje por el mito del Rey «Cruel»: La literatura y la historia después del Romanticismo

Abstract

This work deals with the different ways of confronting Don Pedro's character after Romanticism, which reveal the contradictions and common presuppositions that Literature and History still shared. The monarch «Cruel» became, in a series of narratives, the catalyst for the writers' passions, and the analysis of the various tales created around his figure shows the mutual influence between literary fiction and historical studies at that time. In the end, no universal agreement was reached in the long intertextual dialogue, but the very necessity of this narrative invites us to reflect on all the aspirations and limitations betrayed in the 19th Century thought in these stories.