Desocupado Lector: Cervantes, Poetry, and the Idle Reader

Abstract

The following script is a celebration of the poetry of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), as found in his narrative and dramatic works. The narrative commentary is by Edward Friedman, the poetry by Don Miguel. The original performance was a one-man show that featured a bilingual professional actor. The second performance was by nine graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. The version here is that of the first performance