The bagnios of Algiers
Subtitle: and, The great Sultana : two plays of captivity
By: Miguel de Cervantes ; edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika.
Contributors: Fuchs, Barbara, 1970-; Ilika, Aaron.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780812242096
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Translations into English; Islam -- Drama; Captivity -- Drama; Algiers (Algeria) -- Drama; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Drama
Genres: Translations into English; Drama
Other titles: Gran sultana.
Work titles: Baños de Argel.
Description: "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 over 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." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.