The classical tragedy of Bécquer’s «Account book»

Abstract

This article consists of an analysis and a «definitive» critical edition of the Becquer’s «Tragedy without title» because we have found his source, the Pietro Metastasio’s libretto Demofoonte. We distinguish this work from the «classical tragedy» that Becquer names when he talks about his adolescence, and we connect Demofoonte with the «greek tragedy classical in Italian» The Poet’s daughter, work that Becquer includes between his «Thoughts of original works». We sketch also classical references that we find in the poems that Becquer wrote in his father’s «Account book», where he wrote also her Demofoontes.