Eighteen Century playwrights: Sheridan and Ramón de la Cruz

Abstract

Sheridan, in English, and Ramón de la Cruz, in Spanish, wrote their plays during the eighteen century and shared many topics and rhetorical resources although they were very different authors. They both created metatheatrical pieces and used parody as one of their strategies to fight against the prevailing model in French neoclassical tragedies. Some Ramón de la Cruz's sainetes and Sheridan's comedy The Critic will guide us through our analysis of their similarities and differences.