Don Quixote

[joeallonby]

There's an Anthony Burgess short story that puts Shakespeare and his players
in Spain where they are impressed by a pageant display that depicts Don Q
and Sancho Panza before a bullfight as an expression of national pride in
Cervantes and his new creation the novel. Will uses this as inspiration for
Falstaff and Prince Hal and goes on to produce his greatest series of plays.
To be a total digressing geek for a moment, has anyone noticed that
Aragorn's speech before the gates of Mordor is straight out of Henry V?

Oh, yeah. What was I talking about.

I don't remember the name of the Burgess story but it was in the same
compilation as his Attila novella.

Where was the earthquake and is everybody OK?

Joe

on 12/20/03 11:36 AM, bekah at bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> Um. Yes and no. Shakespeare and Cervantes did
> technically die on the same date but, the date is
> noted in the Gregorian calendar for Cervantes and
> the Julian calendar for Shakespeare.
> 
> So what do we have?  Per the Gregorian calendar
> Shakespeare died on May 3, 1616.
> 
> <http://www.renaissance-faire.com/Renfaires/Entertainment/William-Shakespeare-
> death.htm>
> 
> Bekah
> holy shit, we just had an earthquake! I'll let you know
> 
> 
> 
> At 7:07 AM +0100 12/20/03, Otto wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Vincent BRACQ" <vincent.bracq at wanadoo.fr>
>> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: Don Quixote
>> 
>> 
>>> Le vendredi, 19 déc 2003, à 19:22 Europe/Paris, Ghetta Life a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1105510,00.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Don Quixote - the first modern novel - remains the finest. As a new
>>>> translation of the Spanish classic is published, Harold Bloom argues
>>>> that only Shakespeare comes close to Cervantes' genius
>>>> 
>>> Do you know that Cervantes and Shakespeare die the same day ?
>>> 
>> 
>> The article puts it even stronger:
>> 
>> "Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died almost simultaneously (...)."
>> 
>> Must've been a bad day for literature!
>> 
>> There's an e-text of the 1885 translation by John Ormsby.
>> http://www.donquixote.com/english.html
>> 
>> Otto
> 
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