The" Romancero del Rey Don Pedro" in Ayala and the" Cuarta Crónica General"

WJ Entwistle - The Modern Language Review, 1930 - JSTOR
WJ Entwistle
The Modern Language Review, 1930JSTOR
THE Romancero del Rey Don Pedro, as preserved in the late Menendez y Pelayo's
Antologia de Poetas Liricos Castellanos, consists of nine ballads. Eight of these can be
assigned to events ranging in date from 1358 to 1369, that is to say, the period of the
struggle between Enrique de Trasta-mara and the ill-fated king for the possession of the
Castilian crown. Another ballad relates an adventure of one of Pedro's unworthy favourites
which, being unhistorical and rejected by Ayala, is not capable of receiving a date. The …
THE Romancero del Rey Don Pedro, as preserved in the late Menendez y Pelayo's Antologia de Poetas Liricos Castellanos, consists of nine ballads. Eight of these can be assigned to events ranging in date from 1358 to 1369, that is to say, the period of the struggle between Enrique de Trasta-mara and the ill-fated king for the possession of the Castilian crown. Another ballad relates an adventure of one of Pedro's unworthy favourites which, being unhistorical and rejected by Ayala, is not capable of receiving a date. The series consists of the following pieces:
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