La educación moral en las primeras edades a través del teatro español del siglo XVIII y primera mitad del XIX

Abstract

In Spain in the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth century there was an extraordinary interest in the education of the youngest, one of the groups in which the enlightened placed their hopes of the long-awaited renaissance of the homeland. In this sense, the theatre, due to its wide effect and didactic power, became a platform of unequalled value for the transmission and inculcation of new ideas and pedagogical currents in vogue at that time. Although this aspect  has already been studed by literary criticism, it has generally been done in relation to brilliant theatrical works of that time, such as El sí de las niñas, by Moratín. It is necessary, therefore, to examine other perhaps less well-known theatrical texts but which also clearly show how the theatre contributed to promote a moral reform of the Spanish youth.