Cervantes's Eight Interludes

Cervantes's Eight Interludes
Title Cervantes's Eight Interludes PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages 117
Release 2015-09-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 149504968X

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(Applause Books). Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is Spain's most famous author, primarily because of his celebrated novel Don Quixote . His first love, however, was the theater, for which he wrote extensively. His Interludes , published 400 years ago in 1615, are short, comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance Spanish society. Their characters include hillbillies and con artists, pimps and prostitutes, adulterous wives and jealous husbands, and an array of other comical figures. Cervantes's treatment of them is simultaneously critical and sympathetic. Although interludes tend to be works of light comedy, Cervantes often imbues his with deeper themes. Charles Patterson, a scholar of Hispanic theater, has created translations of the Interludes that are true to the earthiness of the originals but designed to be readily playable for today's actors and accessible to modern audiences. This book includes an introduction that places the plays in context, briefly describing the life of Cervantes, theater in early modern Spain, Cervantes's interludes, and Patterson's approach to translating them. Casual readers, theater and literature students, and professional actors alike will delight in these comedic gems that reveal a less familiar side of one of history's greatest writers.

Eight Interludes

Eight Interludes
Title Eight Interludes PDF eBook
Author Miguel De Cercantes
Publisher Everymans Library
Total Pages 178
Release 1996
Genre English drama
ISBN 9780460877510

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Best known and loved for DON QUIXOTE,the ground-breaking comic precursor of the modern novel,Cervantes led an extraordinary life every bit as colourful as his works.Born the son of a poor medical practioner,maimed by gunshot as a soldier, held to ransom by Algerian corsairs,and eventually drifting into a literary career,Cervantes could draw upon a range of experience with which to spice up his writings.Written as diversionary pieces to be performed between the main acts of a play,Cervantes's eight interludes included in this anthology are comic gems in their own right.As a genre,'interludes'were generally disliked by the authorities because of their subversive potential,and those by Cervantes are no exception.Crude,rude robust and anarchically refreshing,EIGHT INTERLUDES reveals that even as a playwright Cervantes was ahead of his times.

Interludes

Interludes
Title Interludes PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages 148
Release 1991
Genre Fiction
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Written as diversionary pieces to be performed between the main acts of a play, these eight interludes are comic glimpses of a world far removed from courtly elegance or military heroism.

Eight Interludes

Eight Interludes
Title Eight Interludes PDF eBook
Author Cervantes
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ISBN 9789350090145

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The Interludes of Cervantes

The Interludes of Cervantes
Title The Interludes of Cervantes PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher Greenwood
Total Pages 244
Release 1969
Genre Fiction
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What Would Cervantes Do?

What Would Cervantes Do?
Title What Would Cervantes Do? PDF eBook
Author David Castillo
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages
Release 2022-01-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0228009308

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The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel antidemocratic white nationalist movements in the United States and abroad, What Would Cervantes Do? is a lucid meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation. David Castillo and William Egginton travel back to the early modern period, the first age of inflationary media, in search of historically tested strategies to overcome disinformation and shed light on our post-truth market. Through a series of critical conversations between cultural icons of the twenty-first century and those of the Spanish Golden Age, What Would Cervantes Do? provides a tour-de-force commentary on current politics and popular culture. Offering a diverse range of Cervantist comparative readings of contemporary cultural texts – movies, television shows, and infotainment – alongside ideas and issues from literary and cultural texts of early modern Spain, Castillo and Egginton present a new way of unpacking the logic of contemporary media. What Would Cervantes Do? is an urgent and timely self-help manual for literary scholars and humanists of all stripes, and a powerful toolkit for reality literacy.

The Interludes of Cervantes

The Interludes of Cervantes
Title The Interludes of Cervantes PDF eBook
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Total Pages 223
Release 1948
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