'Don Quick-sottish, or so': Cervantic ingredients in Aphra Behn's the emperor of the moon (Article)
In a brief critical assessment of Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon (1688), Jane Spencer pronounces it “a play that, in the best Quixotic tradition, enchants even as it mocks the victims of enchantment.”1 Behn’s farce does precisely that, and much more, with the aid of Cervantes’s hypotext. H...
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| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172644 |