Madman of La Mancha: A Stage Play of Don Quixote

By Diana de Armas Wilson

A stage-play in 16 choice scenes, Madman of La Mancha aims to update Don Quixote for our post-9/11 times. Although often regarded as a "funny book," Cervantes's great novel is interlaced throughout with the Christian-Muslim hostilities that characterized his age (1547-1616). My adaptation shows how Cervantes himself-a captive in Muslim Algiers for five years-chose to make an Arabic historian into the "true author" of Don Quixote. A representative of Christian Spain's most marginalized population, the character of Sidi Hamid Benengeli affords English-speaking audiences a fresh take on the antics of literature's most endearing madman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500385492
• ISBN13: 9781500385491
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"