Best known today as the author ofDon 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 inDon 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.
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Al final de su vida Cervantes publicó Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados (1615). Tres de esas comedias muestran su imagen del mundo islámico y su vida en Argelia: El ...gallardo español, Los baños de Argel y La gran sultana. Biographische Informationen Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 1547-Madrid, 1616). España. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra nació a mediados de 1547, en Alcalá de Henares, como cuarto de los siete hijos del cirujano Rodrigo de Cervantes y Leonor de Cortinas. Después, entre 1551 y 1556, su familia se trasladaría, sucesivamente, a Valladolid.
