Entremeses

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · Javier Huerta Calvo

Jan 1997 · EDAF

About this ebook

La fortuna que como narrador alcanzó Cervantes con el Quijote no sirvió para abrirle las puertas del teatro de su época, coto vedado para quien no estuviera dispuesto a secundar las huellas de Lope de Vega. No habiéndoles podido estrenar, un año antes de su muerte publica Cervantes, junto a ocho comedias, los ocho entremeses que se recogen en el presente volumen y que constituyen una cuna del teatro cómico universal. En ellos despliega el autor toda su capacidad irónica y crítica a fin de censurar, entre burlas y veras, algunos de los principales vicios de su tiempo y de cualquier tiempo: la incultura, la corrupción, el poder del dinero, la hipocresía social, todo un vasto retablo de la necedad humana.

About the author

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, born in Alcala de Henares, Spain, in 1547, was the son of a surgeon. In 1585, a few months after his marriage to Catalina de Salazar, Cervantes published his first major work as an author, the pastoral novel La Galatea which was poorly received. Cervantes became a tax collector in Granada in 1594, but was imprisoned in 1597 due to money problems with the government. Folklore maintains that while in prison, Cervantes wrote his most famous novel, Don Quixote, which was an immediate success upon publication in 1605. After several years of writing short novels and plays, Cervantes was spurred to write the sequel to Don Quixote in 1615 when an unauthorized sequel appeared to great acclaim. Don Quixote is considered the defining Spanish literary contribution. It is humorous, bawdy, and human, pitting one man's loyalty to tradition and faith against the world's harsh progress. Though Cervantes' sequel was rushed and flawed, Don Quixote remains a powerful symbol that has endured to present times in many forms. Cervantes died on April 22, 1616, at the age of 69.