Forner Journalist: collaborations in Diario de las Musas (1790-1791)

Abstract

This article rescued from oblivion the collaborations published, as anonymous, by Juan Pablo Forner in one of the prestigious newspapers that appeared in the Eighteenth Century in Spain, the Diario de las Musas (Journal of the Muses). These collaborations include the three texts that the native of Merida himself recognized as his own in the Catálogo de las obras de Forner de su misma mano: Dialogo entre un Escolar y un Sabio à la moda, La Farsa de los Filósofos and Diálogo entre el Doctor Ferrando y Mr. Pedant. With our work we wanted to contribute to improve the knowledge we have today of the written production bequeathed by Forner to posterity, and to disseminate it among current interested readers.

Keywords

• literary history
• spanish eighteenth century
• theatre
• newspapers
• juan pablo forner