Lealtad sin recompensa: Estudio comparativo de El Viting de Cándido María Trigueros, y Siroe, re di Persia de Pietro Metastasio

Abstract

Siroe, re di Persia of Pietro Metastasio and El Viting de Cándido María Trigueros are the works that obviously have a similar plot. Although, they completely differ in the treatment of a figure who takes an important part of saving the life of the protagonist, an innocent prince sentenced to death by his very father. Considering these almost twin works, this article aims to explore the idea of loyalty that in Trigueros’s tragedy in which the author, in spite of the negative opinion of the censor, refused to modify the plot for the representaion of the work.

Keywords

• cándido maría trigueros
• pietro metastasio
• loyalty
• tragedy