May 5: Cervantes on stage
Lecture to explore the many adaptations of 'Don Quixote'
1:18 p.m., April 26, 2016--Marina Brownlee of Princeton University will present a public lecture, “The Afterlives of Cervantes on the English Stage,” at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 5, in the Trabant University Center Theatre on the University of Delaware’s Newark campus.
The talk, part of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Spring Distinguished Lecturer Series, is free and open to the public.
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Brownlee, who is Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Princeton, will explore Cervantes’ Don Quixote and the ways in which its publication fascinated not only Spain but also all of Europe, resulting in numerous translations and adaptations. In 17th century England, for example, a number of diverse plays based on Quixote were produced.
In her lecture, Brownlee will look at three English theatrical adaptations of one especially provocative Cervantine episode.