The Novelist as Playwright: Cervantes and the Entremés Nuevo

by Cory A. Reed

The first book-length work devoted exclusively to the entremeses of Cervantes, this study explores Cervantes's short drama as literary-dramtic hybrids whose publication in 1615 represented a confluence of mass culture and literary tradition. The book approaches the interludes as innovative texts written originally for the public stage, but destined for consumption by the private reader because of their departure from established dramtic convention...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820419893
• ISBN13: 9780820419893
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 222 Pages