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Resumen En este artículo se analiza el drama Antonio Pérez y Felipe II, del escritor e historiador José Muñoz Maldonado. Este drama se estrenó en los momentos más difíciles de la Primera Guerra Carlista y se prueba cómo el autor empleó la figura de Felipe II con una finalidad propagandística: deseaba suscitar horror hacia las arbitrariedades y tiranías de las monarquías no constitucionales, y así contribuir a la causa liberal de Isabel II, de modo similar a como lo hicieron otros escritores en la época. Abstract This article analyses the drama Antonio Perez and Philip II, by the writer and historian José Muñoz Maldonado. This drama was premiered at the most difficult moments of the First Carlist War. Evidence is provided of how the author used the figure of Philip II as an instrument of propaganda: he wanted to inspire horror against the arbitrariness and tyranny of non-constitutional monarchies and thus contribute to the liberal cause of Isabel II, as other writers were doing at the time.

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This page is a summary of: Propaganda contra el poder absoluto en 1837: José Muñoz Maldonado, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, January 2014, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2014.24.
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