No hay reino como el de Dios y los mártires de Madrid: Identification and Authorship Problems

Abstract

The article focuses on the comedy No hay reino como el de Dios y mártires de Madrid, written in collaboration between Jerónimo de Cáncer and Velasco, Juan de Matos Fragoso, and Agustín Moreto. The preliminary task is to distinguish this piece, taking into allow the manuscript and printed texts, from another with which it has been often confused, with reason of the similarity of argument and title: Dejar un reino por otro y mártires de Madrid, which can reasonably be attributed to Cristóbal de Monroy y Silva. Next, we try to find out the effective authorship of both acts, based on criteria of metric type.