Las comedias de dudosa atribución de Agustín Moreto: nuevas perspectivas estilométricas

Abstract

The huge dramatic corpus of the Spanish Golden Age still poses problems of authorship in a large number of plays attributed, with doubts, to their creators. The example of the Madrid playwright Agustín Moreto (1618–1669) is no exception, since he has a significant number of plays for which there are uncertainties about their authorship. The works he published in his first two parts of plays, which were printed under his supervision, offer no authorial doubts. However, many of those published in part three, or as single works, have often been accompanied by numerous bibliographical discussions. Ten of the plays in his dramatic corpus generate mistrust in relation to the identity of the playwright who composed them. The aim of this article is to analyse these texts from different stylometric methodologies in order to verify, after a comparative analysis that includes 18 works of sure authorship by the playwright and 59 by different authors of the Golden Age, which of them are or are not by Agustín Moreto.