The Three-Cornered Hat (Spanish: El sombrero de tres picos) is a novel written by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in 1874.[1] The story of a magistrate infatuated with a miller's faithful wife is set in the province of Granada.
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| Author | Pedro Antonio de Alarcón |
|---|---|
| Original title | El sombrero de tres picos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre | Novel |
| Set in | Andalusia |
Publication date | 1874 |
| Publication place | Spain |
The piece should be classified as a short story[clarification needed] and it contains popular tradition with a linear plot line.[2] The novel has a theatrical format and it has been compared with the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quijote.[3]
Adaptations
editThe best -known adaptation is probably the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat with music by Manuel de Falla.[4]
The Three-Cornered Hat has been adapted into:
- A musical comedy by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz called Revenge with Music (1934),[5]\
- An opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai called La farsa amorosa (1933)[6]
- An opera composed by Hugo Wolf called Der Corregidor.,[7] A Musical Comedy version by Bob Beare and Young Smith was produced by Main Street Theatre in Houston in 2002.
References
edit- ^ "El sombrero de tres picos, de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- ^ Winslow, Richard W. "The Distinction of Structure in Alarcon's El sombrero de tres picos and El capitán veneno". Hispania. 46 (1963). Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese: 712–721. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 00182133. LCCN 2002-227125. OCLC 50709558.
- ^ Medina, Jeremy T. (1972). "Structural Techniques of Alarcón's "El Sombrero de Tres Picos"". Romance Notes. 14 (1). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Romance Studies: 83–85. JSTOR 43802521.
- ^ Bedmar Estrada, Luis Pedro. ""El sombrero de tres picos", de Manuel de Falla". Conservatorio Superior de Música"Rafael Orozco" de Córdoba" (in Spanish). Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- ^ Lamb, Andrew (2000). "The Musical Comes Ages". 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre. Yale University Press. p. 184. ISBN 9780300075380.
- ^ Mallach, Alan (2007). "Notes". The Autumn of Italian Opera: From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915. UPNE. p. 434. ISBN 9781555536831.
- ^ Heywood, Stuart P. (2011). Emergent Holistic Consciousness: The Postmodern Mystic. AuthorHouse. p. 91. ISBN 9781456771249.