Composers and their stage works 


Leandro Fernández de Moratín

(1760 - 1828)

Son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín. Born March 10, 1760. Died Paris June 21, 1828

 

Plays

Unless otherwise indicated, the plays were first performed in Madrid.

  1. El viejo y la nina (The Old Man and the Young Girl). Play, 3 acts; verse. Written 1786. Produced Teatro del Principe, May 22, 1790.
  2. El barón (The Baron). Play, 2 acts; verse. Written 1787. Produced Teatro de la Cruz, Jan. 28, 1803.
  3. La comedia nueva, o El café (The New Play, or The Café). Play, 2 acts; prose. Written 1791. Produced Teatro del Principe, May 22, 1792.
  4. La mojigata (The Hypocritical Woman). Play, 3 acts; verse. Written 1791. Produced Teatro de la Cruz, May 19, 1804.
  5. Hamlet. (Translation). Tragedy, 5 acts; prose. Published 1798. Based on William Shakespeare's play(1600/01).
  6. El sí de las ninas (When a Girl Says Yes). Play, 3 acts; prose. Written 1801. Published 1806. Produced Teatro de la Cruz, Jan. 24, 1806.
  7. La escuela de maridos (The School for Husbands) (Adaptation). Play, 3 acts; prose. Produced Teatro del Principe, Mar. 17, 1812. Based on Molière's L'école des maris (1661).
  8. El medico a palos (The Doctor in Spite of Himself). (Adaptation) Play, 2 acts; prose. Produced Barcelona, Dec. 5, 1814. Based on Molière's Le médecin malgré lui (1666).

Criticism

  • J. de la Revilla, Juicio crítico sobre don Leandro Fernandez de Moratín como autor cómico, Seville, 1833;
  • A. Acalá Gahano, Juicio critico sobre el celebre poeta cómico Leandro Fernandez de Moratín, Madrid, 1856;
  • M. Silvela, Biograffa de Leandro Fernández de Moratín, in Obras póstumas, Madrid, 1867-1868;
  • Candido (J. Martínez Ruiz), Moratín: Esbozo, Madrid, 1893;
  • M. Martinez Rubio, Moratín, Valencia, 1893;
  • J. Arolas Juani, El teatro de Moratín, Manresa, 1897;
  • F. Ruiz Morcuende, Vocabulario de don Leandro Fernandez de Moratín, 2 vols., Madrid, 1955;
  • A. Papell, Moratín y su epoca, Palma de Mallorca, 1958;
  • J. A. Cook, Neo-Classic Drama in Spain. Theory and Practice, Dallas, 1959;
  • R. Andioc, Sur la querelle du théàtre au temps de Leandro Fernandez de Moratín, Bordeaux, 1970;
  • J. C. Dowling, Leandro Fernandez de Moratín, New York, 1971.