The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity by Cervantes, Miguel De
The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity by Cervantes, Miguel De

The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity

Best known today as the author of Don Quixote--one of the most beloved and widely read novels...
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Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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Language: English
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The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity by Cervantes, Miguel De

The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity

$62.15
The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity by Cervantes, Miguel De

The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity

$62.15
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Best known today as the author of Don Quixote--one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition--Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his theatrical career was interrupted by other literary efforts. Yet, eager to prove himself as a playwright, shortly before his death he published a collection of his later plays before they were ever performed.

With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana, draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes in Don Quixote. They are set in a Mediterranean world where Spain and its Muslim neighbors clashed repeatedly while still remaining in close contact, with merchants, exiles, captives, soldiers, and renegades frequently crossing between the two sides. The plays provide revealing insights into Spain's complex perception of the world of Mediterranean Islam.

Despite their considerable literary and historical interest, these two plays have never before been translated into English. This edition presents them along with an introductory essay that places them in the context of Cervantes's drama, the early modern stage, and the political and cultural relations between Christianity and Islam in the early modern period.

Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 08/02/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780812222159

About the Author
Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Aaron J. Ilika is a Portland-based independent scholar and translator.
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