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Madman of La Mancha: A Stage Play of Don Quixote
Madman of La Mancha A Stage Play of Don Quixote Author: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... more » 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.« less