The bagnios of Algiers : and, the great Sultana : two plays of captivity / Miguel de Cervantes ; edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Contributor:

Fuchs, Barbara, 1970-

Ilika, Aaron.

Standardized Title:

Baǫs de Argel. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Translations into English.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Islam--Drama.

Islam.

Captivity--Drama.

Captivity.

Algiers (Algeria)--Drama.

Algiers (Algeria).

Istanbul (Turkey)--Drama.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1580's, 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

The Bagnios of Algiers

The Great Sultana

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Gran sultana. English

ISBN:

9781283898508

1283898500

9780812207903

0812207904

OCLC:

802050317