MABEL DEARMER’S APPROACH TO CERVANTES’S NOVEL IN HER PLAY DON QUIXOTE. A ROMANTIC DRAMA
MABEL DEARMER’S APPROACH TO CERVANTES’S NOVEL IN HER PLAY DON QUIXOTE. A ROMANTIC DRAMA
Author(s): María José ÁLVAREZ FAEDOSubject(s): Comparative Linguistics, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: comparative literature; Don Quixote; Mabel Dearmer; Miguel de Cervantes; rewriting;
Summary/Abstract: This article analyses, with the specific tools of comparative literature, the way Mabel Dearmer’s play Don Quixote. A Romantic Drama (1916) revisits Miguel Cervantes’s novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (1605/1615). It discusses the work of this less known English novelist and playwright as a modern adaptation which successfully offers the Knight of the Sad Countenance the ending she believed he deserved, imbuing her text with intertextual echoes from the English pastoral tradition and the Byzantine adventure novel.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 29/2023
- Issue No: 29
- Page Range: 41-50
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English