Los toros. Descripción de viajeros ingleses en la España del siglo XIX

Abstract

Se ofrecen tres breves extractos de viajeros ingleses del siglo XIX referentes a la fiesta de los toros, con distintos matices. Están tomados, el primero, de William Jacob, Travels in the South of Spain in Letters written A. D. 1809 and 1810, publicada en Londres en 1811. El segundo, del libro de Hoskings, Spain as it is, Londres 1851. Y el tercero, de la obra de Calvert, Impressions of Spain, Londres 1903.

This paper presents three brief extracts by English travellers about bullfighting in Spain during the nineteenth century. The first texts is taken from William Jacob’s Travels in the South of Spain in Letters written A. D. 1809 and 1810, published in London in 1811. The second one is taken from the book by Hoskings, Spain as it is, London 1851. The third is Impressions of Spain, London, 1903, by Calvert.