'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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| description | 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. However, scholars have yet to study at length exactly how quixotism is invoked in The Emperor of the Moon and the ways in which it bears upon the satirical targets as well as the general humor and the larger implications of the piece. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1726442023-12-21T15:33:50Z 'Don Quick-sottish, or so': Cervantic ingredients in Aphra Behn's the emperor of the moon (Article) Castro-Santana, Anaclara School of Humanities Humanities::Literature::English 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. However, scholars have yet to study at length exactly how quixotism is invoked in The Emperor of the Moon and the ways in which it bears upon the satirical targets as well as the general humor and the larger implications of the piece. Published version 2023-12-20T00:22:00Z 2023-12-20T00:22:00Z 2023 Journal Article Castro-Santana, A. (2023). 'Don Quick-sottish, or so': Cervantic ingredients in Aphra Behn's the emperor of the moon (Article). Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment, 3(1), 1-5. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/srej.2023.3.1.4 2661-3336 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172644 10.32655/srej.2023.3.1.4 1 3 1 5 en Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment © 2023 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, & the Brigham Young University Faculty Publishing Service. application/pdf |
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