Most of the dramas seem to be short, one-act pieces, characterized by strong message and boldly sketched protagonists. Anti-Carlism clearly prevailed, a phenomenon obviously linked to Cristinos controlling almost all the urban zones, centers of cultural and theatrical life. There were a number of theatrical pieces written as the war was unfolding and it seems that most of them were actually staged, as they served mostly propagandistic purpose of mobilizing support only few were rather comments to recent or even ongoing events. The literary genre which responded first was drama. The 1833 outbreak of the First Carlist War, usually considered the birth moment of Carlism, has almost immediately triggered a literary response. No Romantic work touching upon the Carlist subject is considered part of the great Spanish literature. On the other hand, the popular oral rural response, which made it to literature once written down in the future, was predominantly pro-Carlist. On both the Cristinos gained immediate advantage, which in the aftermath of the war became visible also in prose, especially in the nascent novel. Two genres serving as key literary battlefields were poetry and drama, the most adapt ones in terms of responsiveness. The literary response to the conflict was immediate and massive its key features were propagandistic objectives of both sides and often close follow-up to the events as they were unfolding. The First Carlist War broke out when Spanish Romanticism was in its heyday. 2.2 Novel: realismo, naturalismo, costumbrismo.Today it enjoys some popularity, though no longer as catalyst of paramount cultural or political discourse its role is mostly to provide exotic, historical, romantic, and sometimes mysterious setting. Afterward, it lost its appeal as a literary motive, still later reduced to instrumental role during Francoism. It lasted for some quarter of a century, as until the late 1910s Carlism remained a key theme of numerous monumental works of Spanish literature. However, it remains paradoxical that when Unamuno was offering his analysis, the period of great Carlist role in letters was just about to begin. It was probably the first-ever attempt to examine the Carlist motive in literature, as for the previous 57 years the subject had been increasingly present in poetry, drama and novel. On March 21, 1890, at a conference dedicated to the siege of Bilbao during the Third Carlist War, Miguel de Unamuno delivered a lecture titled La última guerra carlista como materia poética.