EIGHT INTERLUDES by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de ISBN 0460877518
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Written as diversionary pieces to be performed between the main acts of a play, these eight interludes are comic glimpses of a world far removed from courtly elegance or military heroism. This study edition contains both the texts and commentary upon them.
Best known and loved for DON QUIXOTE,the ground-breaking comic precursor of the modern novel,Cervantes led an extraordinary life every bit as colourful as his works.Born the son of a poor medical practioner,maimed by gunshot as a soldier, held to ransom by Algerian corsairs,and eventually drifting into a literary career,Cervantes could draw upon a range of experience with which to spice up his writings.Written as diversionary pieces to be performed between the main acts of a play,Cervantes's eight interludes included in this anthology are comic gems in their own right.As a genre,'interludes'were generally disliked by the authorities because of their subversive potential,and those by Cervantes are no exception.Crude,rude robust and anarchically refreshing,EIGHT INTERLUDES reveals that even as a playwright Cervantes was ahead of his times.
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[edit] Title
EIGHT INTERLUDES
[edit] Author
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
[edit] ISBN
0460877518
[edit] Published
02/09/1996
[edit] Publisher
Everyman
[edit] Binding
paperback (B format)
[edit] Retail Price
5.99 (GBP)
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