The Comical History of Don Quixote
The Comical History of Don Quixote is a three-part dramatization of Miguel de Cervantes's celebrated novel Don Quixote. It was written in 1694, only seventy-eight years after the death of Cervantes, by Thomas D'Urfey. It is one of the first stage dramatizations of "Don Quixote" ever written. The piece featured many songs, most of them by Henry Purcell, but there were some by other noted Restoration composers.[1] A highly-abridged early revival of it (with full orchestral accompaniment) took place at the 1938 Bath Music Festival.[2]
The complete work itself, according to writer-director Don Taylor, is actually three separate plays, and in total takes more than seven hours to perform.[3] It is seldom, if ever, revived today, and was not a success at its premiere, although some of Purcell's compositions for it (From rosy bow'rs, for instance) have become fairly well known.[3] In 1994, an attempt was made at "reconstructing" it, in a version entitled Don Quixote: The Musical. This edition featured much of the play's original music, but used an entirely new libretto (in fairly modern English) written by Taylor, and setting the story as a play within a play, with D'Urfey and others appearing as characters in it. The production starred Paul Scofield as Don Quixote, and Roy Hudd as Sancho Panza.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/eprosed/eprosed-idx?coll=eprosed;idno=P2.0294%7C English Prose Drama: The Comical History of Don Quixote
- ^ "Music in the Provinces: Bath". www.jstor.org. JSTOR 922789.
- ^ a b https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000000UL1%7C "Don Quixote: The Musical"
- ^ "Don Quixote - The Musical". www.medieval.org.
- ^ "Radio 3 Programmes - Drama on 3, Don Quixote, by Thomas D'Urfey". BBC. 2009-11-22. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ http://www.radiodramareviews.com/id370.html%7C Don Quixote: The Musical
External links
- The Comical History of Don Quixote, full text of the first edition at Early English Books Online.
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imaginary characters,
and animals
- Alonso Quixano / Don Quixote
- Sancho Panza
- Cide Hamete Benengeli
- Clavileño
- Dulcinea del Toboso / Aldonza Lorenzo
- Ginés de Pasamonte
- Ricote
- Rocinante
- The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694 play)
- Double Falsehood (1727 play)
musical
- Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (1743)
- Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (1761 opera)
- Sancho Pança dans son isle (1762 opera)
- Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (1771 opera)
- Don Quixote (1898 opera)
- Don Quichotte (1910 opera)
- Man of La Mancha (1964 musical, "The Impossible Dream" song)
- Don Quixote (Richard Strauss, 1898)
- Don Quixote (Ludwig Minkus, 1869)
- Don Quixote (1903)
- Incident from Don Quixote (1908)
- Don Quixote (1923)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- Don Quixote (1947)
- Don Quixote (1955–1969, unfinished)
- Don Quixote (1957)
- Dulcinea (1963)
- Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968)
- Man of La Mancha (1972)
- Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo (1973)
- Don Quixote (2000)
- Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- Don Quixote, Knight Errant (2002)
- Honor de cavalleria (2006)
- Donkey Xote (2007)
- Don Quixote (2010)
- Don Quixote (2015)
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
- He Dreams of Giants (2019)
- I, Don Quixote (1959 teleplay)
- Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha (1980 series)
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (1989 series)
- El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes (1992 series)
- Don Quixote (2011 series)
- La Leyenda de la Mancha (1998, "Molinos de viento" song)
- Don Quixote (1955 sketch)
- Don Quixote (1976 sculpture)
- Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
- Amadís de Gaula
- List of works influenced by Don Quixote
- Quixotism
- The History of Cardenio
- "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)
- "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (1939 short story)
- Monsignor Quixote (1982 novel)
- Super Don Quix-ote (1984 video game)
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