Identifier: 32

Title of the Review/Article: 

On the Less Celebrated Productions of the Author of Don Quixote. No. I.

Periodical (dates): The New Monthly Magazine (1814-1884)
Volume: 1
Number: 1
Date: 1821 (January)
Place of publication: London
Pages: 113-121
Editor: Henry Colburn (1784/5-1855)
Author (Reviewer): Thomas Sheperd Munden (1800-1850)
Brief description:

Brief discussion on the history of Spanish theatre, including a comparison with other European literary traditions, and a comparison of the lives and fortunes of Camoes and Cervantes. The article concludes with the translation of most of Cervantes’ “Prologue to the Reader” in Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos nunca representados (Miguel de Cervantes, 1615)


Spanish authors mentioned:

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681)
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562-1635)
Guillén de Castro y Bellvís (1569-1631)
Lope de Rueda (c. 1510-1565)
Bartolomé Torres Naharro (1485-1520)
Ignacio de Luzán (1702-1754)


Spanish works mentioned:

Don Quijote de la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, 1615)

Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia setentrional (Miguel de Cervantes, 1617)

La Galatea (Miguel de Cervantes, 1585)

El cerco de Numancia (Miguel de Cervantes, 1582-1585)

El trato de Argel (Miguel de Cervantes, 1582)

Poética (Ignacio de Luzan, 1737)


Spanish works translated (P=Partially, F=Fully):

Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia setentrional (Miguel de Cervantes, 1617) (P) (Dedication to Count of Lemos)

Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos nunca representados (Miguel de Cervantes, 1615) (P) (Prologue to the Reader)


Other relevant Spanish names mentioned:

Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade, 7th Count of Lemos & 4th Marquis of Sarria (1576-1622)


Spanish place names:

Madrid


Additional information:

Reference to Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi’s De la Littérature du Midi de l’Europe (Paris, 1813)


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