{"product_id":"cervantes-s-eight-interludes-book-miguel-de-cervantes-9781495013034","title":"Cervantes's Eight Interludes","description":"Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is Spain's most famous author  primarily because of his celebrated novel ÊDon QuixoteÊ. His first love  however  was the theater  for which he wrote extensively. His ÊInterludesÊ  published 400 years ago in 1615  are short  comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance Spanish society. Their characters include hillbillies and con artists  pimps and prostitutes  adulterous wives and jealous husbands  and an array of other comical figures. Cervantes's treatment of them is simultaneously critical and sympathetic. Although interludes tend to be works of light comedy  Cervantes often imbues his with deeper themes.ÞCharles Patterson  a scholar of Hispanic theater  has created translations of the ÊInterludesÊ that are true to the earthiness of the originals but designed to be readily playable for today's actors and accessible to modern audiences. This book includes an introduction that places the plays in context  briefly describing the life of Cervantes  theater in early modern Spain  Cervantes's interludes  and Patterson's approach to translating them. Casual readers  theater and literature students  and professional actors alike will delight in these comedic gems that reveal a less familiar side of one of history's greatest writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49890636529937,"sku":"GOR009616236","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1495013030.jpg?v=1751210683","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/cervantes-s-eight-interludes-book-miguel-de-cervantes-9781495013034","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}