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.
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