Cervantes’s interpolated novels in “The comical history of Don Quixote”

Immensely popular in seventeenth-century Britain, the interpolated episodes of Marcela and Cardenio were featured in the performance of the first British stage adaptation of Cervantes’s masterpiece: Thomas D’Urfey’s The Comical History of Don Quixote. This article provides a comparative analysis of...

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Main Author: Raquel Serrano González
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Language:English
Published: Universidad de La Rioja 2017-11-01
Series:Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica
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Online Access:https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/cif/article/view/3017
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description Immensely popular in seventeenth-century Britain, the interpolated episodes of Marcela and Cardenio were featured in the performance of the first British stage adaptation of Cervantes’s masterpiece: Thomas D’Urfey’s The Comical History of Don Quixote. This article provides a comparative analysis of the aforementioned stories in both works. An analysis of Cervantes’s novel reveals that the protagonists of these tales enact a counter-hegemonic identity that subverts the dominant notions of gender and class. Hence, D’Urfey’s play is approached with a view to determining whether the subversive potential of the original is preserved. It can be argued that, as opposed to his literary predecessor, D’Urfey exploits these episodes to reinforce and naturalise the hegemonic ideology and the resulting social order.
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Cervantes’s interpolated novels in “The comical history of Don Quixote”
Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica
don quijote
cervantes
thomas d’urfey
the comical history of don quixote
interpolated novels
restoration theatre
title Cervantes’s interpolated novels in “The comical history of Don Quixote”
title_full Cervantes’s interpolated novels in “The comical history of Don Quixote”
title_fullStr Cervantes’s interpolated novels in “The comical history of Don Quixote”
title_full_unstemmed Cervantes’s interpolated novels in “The comical history of Don Quixote”
title_short Cervantes’s interpolated novels in “The comical history of Don Quixote”
title_sort cervantes s interpolated novels in the comical history of don quixote
topic don quijote
cervantes
thomas d’urfey
the comical history of don quixote
interpolated novels
restoration theatre
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