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Numancia
La experiencia de Miguel de Cervantes como autor teatral le causó no pocos sinsabores. Iniciada en un momento (finales del XVI) en el que las formas teatrales y el favor del público estaban en pleno cambio, coincidió en su final con el ascenso de Lope de Vega, que vino a eclipsar todo el teatro anterior. Y, sin embargo, Cervantes hizo no poco por la escena de la época, como él mismo reconoció: "Fui el primero que representase las imaginaciones y los pensamientos escondidos del alma". Con Numancia intentó dar a España un teatro digno de las tragedias griegas, y por su tono y la grandeza de los hechos representados logró, efectivamente, la más vigente de las tragedias de los Siglos de Oro.
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
4,881 books3,562 followersMiguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.
It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.
In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order.
He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid.
In Esquivias (Province of Toledo), on 12 December 1584, he married the much younger Catalina de Salazar y Palacios (Toledo, Esquivias –, 31 October 1626), daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios. Her uncle Alonso de Quesada y Salazar is said to have inspired the character of Don Quixote. During the next 20 years Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada and as a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at least twice (1597 and 1602) for irregularities in his accounts. Between 1596 and 1600, he lived primarily in Seville. In 1606, Cervantes settled in Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Cervantes died in Madrid on April 23, 1616.
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It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.
In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order.
He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid.
In Esquivias (Province of Toledo), on 12 December 1584, he married the much younger Catalina de Salazar y Palacios (Toledo, Esquivias –, 31 October 1626), daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios. Her uncle Alonso de Quesada y Salazar is said to have inspired the character of Don Quixote. During the next 20 years Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada and as a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at least twice (1597 and 1602) for irregularities in his accounts. Between 1596 and 1600, he lived primarily in Seville. In 1606, Cervantes settled in Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Cervantes died in Madrid on April 23, 1616.
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April 20, 2022
La obra trata del suicidio colectivo de una ciudad celtibérica, cercada por las legiones romanas de Escipión Emiliano en el año 133 a.C., que prefirió inmolarse antes que aceptar una rendición infamante. Numancia está sitiada por los romanos, embebidos en la lascivia tras varios años de guerra. La Numancia se estructura en torno a dos ejes temáticos: sitiados y sitiadores. La guerra es el tema central de la tragedia, al que acompañan otros menores, como el patriotismo, la guerra justa, la paz, la libertad, la justicia, el honor, la heroicidad, el amor y la amistad.
November 26, 2023
Numancia is a pure masterpiece, and it is not without reason that Cervantes is said to be a master of his craft. Among these hundred pages, I experienced many emotions, the situations presented show the helplessness, sadness and incredible pride of the nation.
November 9, 2017
A pesar de que el teatro nunca fue el fuerte de Cervantes y se nota, podemos ver indicios de lo que luego sería su obra maestra: el antimaniqueísmo, la alegoría mezclada con lo realista, el papel digno que le da a la mujer y el tema de la libertad.
March 25, 2020
Y, por esto, señoras y señores, Cervantes nunca tuvo que haber escrito una obra de teatro.
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March 20, 2024la amistad de Marandro y Leoncio, mi nuevo imperio romano (ups)
September 26, 2023
Ladies and gentlemen today this review will be written, and then I will write the "English Spanish" https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (which is finally available on Goodreads) which is the novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, which I liked the most, and is the one that has a stronger emotional component. It was not the one that was planned to be written at (that time), but I have the feeling that it is the one that has been demanded of me.
As usual, you will first be told my story with Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra. The first thing you should know is that Miguel de Cervantes is one of my father's favorite writers, who has read more than thirty times the "Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and that it is his favorite book. In fact, he put a lot of effort into reading it, and offered me 10,000 pesetas of the time to read it dispensing me with some stories such as the Captive, the Shepherdess Marcela, Ricote. Unlike the specialized critics I liked much more the second part https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... that the first https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... since a more human character was perceived, and that he no longer moved to laughter. In fact it has been said that Don Quixote could be a Christic character of this has spoken my most admired Don @juan_manuel_de_prada https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . There was much talk that it was the author of "Dead Souls" Gogol https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... whom wrote the Russian Don Quixote (Chichikov), but for me it was closer to achieving Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... than Gogol. Shusaku Endo one of my favorite writers did a great job (which unfortunately could not be read because it is unpublished in Spanish) with "The wonderful fool" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... that marked a turning point in his narrative (less bitter and, more hopeful). It should be said that the first adventure of the hounds of the Transition Gonzalo, and Vicky of my friend Professor Manuel Alfonseca (they are recommended his wonderful books, and his blog Divulciencia about science) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/series/1836... They begin their adventures with a sheet left at random in a "Don Quixote" in a library. My next experience with Miguel de Cervantes was not so pleasant since I read him the exemplary novel "The Illustrious Mop" (whose review is prepared) that was a mandatory reading of the school in the first year of Bachiller became very arid due to the Spanish of the sixteenth century, and I did not find out much. I came to put as a conclusion of my reading sheet "I did not like it at all. END" My parents saw this too improper, and forced me to change my final assessment (especially the END), saying that "I had not liked it as much as other Cervantes stories of the exemplary novels" (being a piece of paper because so far none had been read. It took me a long time to start reading.) I have not yet read half of the twelve exemplary novels.
Last year I returned to Miguel de Cervantes, and I read him some more stories liking "The divorce judge" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (4/5) for being a book hostile to divorce. "Rinconete, y Cortadillo" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... a picaresque novel that almost precedes "Oliver Twist" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (I liked Dickens' work much better. I suppose because of the tenderness of the English writer) although it pains the English to admit it the eighteenth-century English novelistic of Daniel Defoe https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Oliver Goldsmith https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , by Sterne https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Henry Fielding https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and Jonathan Swift https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... has a Cervantes air in the humorous part, and realistic. That does not mean that the fantastic is not present in Cervantine prose, which it is. "The Abbey of Northanger" by Jane Austen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... has the same purpose as "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" in the first case to parody the Gothic genre, and in the case of Miguel de Cervantes to parody the novels of chivalry (at least the bad ones saving from burning "Amadis de Gaula" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... , "Tirant le Blanc" by Joanot Martorell , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and "Palmerin of England" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... (you can see that mythical scene in the library with the priest, and the barber), and incidentally writing a book that would relegate to the background those mentioned, because in the end what Cervantes ends up writing is the best possible book of chivalry).
Why did I return to Miguel de Cervantes? Because I wanted to read "La española inglesa" which was going to be my first reading, and it was going to be the first review, but living readings left me a post, and that's why I'm writing this review. In this work Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra changes gender is one of his first works, and all his life he will maintain a rivalry with Lope de Vega https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . This novel drinks a lot from the historical moment in which it is lived (I must admit that I have not read this edition but that of @alianzaeditorial but I chose this cover because I have always had a weakness for the works of the editorial catedra that I see that is not in @instagram for what I see. I like Cátedra for its prologues, and for its price. Although the prologue I have read to Alianza has not been bad at all. This work has been greatly influenced by the playwright Juan de la Cueva (the creator of the myth of Don Juan in his work "The infamous" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... (his sin more than seducing maidens is to be a blasphemous desecration defiant of the divine will both in this case and in that of Tirso de Molina if he wrote "The Mocker of Seville" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... ). Cervantes has also written about some libertines such as the Rodolfo of "La fuerza de la sangre" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... which will be discussed in another review). The historical sources that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra has used to write this work have been Appian https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... , Annaeus Floro https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , and the authors of the prologue speculate that he may have read "The History of the Jews" by Flavius Josephus https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , because there are parallels between the resistance of the Jews of Masada (here a critique of "Masada" by Ernest K. Gann https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... was written, and Flavius Josephus. appeared as a character in "The roman/S.P.Q.R." second part of "Marco el romano" by Mika Waltari https://www.goodreads.com/series/7410... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... edited by @edhasa.editorial also influenced the "History of Spain" written by Ocampo, and Ambrosio Morales https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . The authors of the prologue see influences in "The Araucan" by Alonso de Ercilla https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (let's see if you can write a review), and that so impressed Professor Manuel Alfonseca. Miguel de Cervantes in this work focuses on the final days of the Celtiberian city of Numantia. It does not count as the city of Numantia defeat, and ends with the best generals of a Rome (among them Nobilior) that after defeating the Greeks, and Carthage (in fact, it is Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus who ends with Carthage), and they send him because Numantia had become a point of no return that evidenced the crisis, and the corruption of the Roman Republic (in fact it was the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic, and as Marcos López Herrador points out https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... I change the Roman calendar). A city of 6000-8000 is able to resist an army of 70000-80000 for figures vary 7-16 years. Numantia defeated Nobilior (some consuls ended up leaving the bones in Numantia among them Nobilior. They could not conquer the city or using the tactics of Hannibal with the elephants / commanded by the Numidian Massinissa (father of Jugurtha with whom Rome ended up facing and, which was the first great campaign of Gaius Marius as consul) in this will appear Yugurtha, and Gaius Marius who here will fight together before facing each other. Quintus Caecilius Métello the Numidic, nor Publius Rutilius Rufus to know this story read "The First Man of Rome" by Colleen McCullough https://www.goodreads.com/series/4371... The first of the seven novels of the end of the Roman Republic) Apart from Nobilior Numantia survived Marcellus, Fulvius, Lucullus, Fabius Maximus, Gaius Lucius Mancinus, and Lucius Fury. Another very powerful influence of Cervantes of the "Siege of Numantia" has been "The Aeneid" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... since Numantia will be similar to Troy, and if the destruction of Troy according to the propaganda of Publius Virgil Maron serves to give birth to Rome. For Miguel de Cervantes the destruction of Numantia serves to emerge from its ashes Spain. In fact, during the work Miguel de Cervantes will not hesitate to call the Numantines Spaniards, and identify with them. According to the authors of the prologue we should not see Spain in Rome. Since Cervantes following the line of Mateo Vázquez, Eraso, Alonso de Barros adopts a Castilian nationalism. Opposed to the Romanism of Antonio Pérez https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... (which is already known how it ended). Spain is the defender of Catholicism, and there is a rivalry with Rome does not hesitate using the allegory of the Douro in boasting of the victories of the sacco of Rome of 1527, and of the victories of the Duke of Alba against His Holiness Pope Paul IV (Alba pious man entered to ask for the surrender of the Pope on his knees). Despite this Erasmist turn, Cervantes is a good Catholic and in other books he will speak very well of Rome. I recommend Dandelet's book of "Spanish Rome" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... . The play follows the classical rules of Aristotle https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , although of time, and place although they are four acts instead of three acts. He uses allegorical figures especially in Act I-IV such as Spain, the Douro, fame, war, and famine. In the play Scipio is called Caepion which confuses because there is another Roman family with the same name. The one who defeated Viriathus by treachery was called that. Thus neither Avaros, nor Megara, but if Rhetoric here called Theogenes most of the characters are invented Caravino (who will insult the Romans because they will refuse to negotiate), Marquino (the priest), who will practice necromancy to find out the fate of the city, Marondro (in love with Lyra), and Leontius the example of friendship During the play, fate will be fought against free will and pre-Calderonian honor, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... it is possible that this will be so to counteract Lutheranism and its predeterminist predestination. Faced with the Machiavellianism that Cervantes like Shakespeare will condemn https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... this will be exemplified by the Romans who seek triumph above all against honorability the Iberian voluntarism. In Spain Machiavellianism will emerge with another name called Tacitism embodied by Saavedra Fajardo https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (I am very interested in reading his writings including "Corona Gothica" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... , and Baltásar Alamo Barrientos https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , and from Westphalia (1648) will be the line to follow by Spain unable to continue by its ideology A politician that by French inspiration will be secularist, and national, and will force to seek alliances with the Dutch, and English to counteract French hegemony. The Romans are nevertheless not frowned upon, and are to sing the glory of the Numantines. The prologue rules out that Scipio is John of Austria, and represents the Spaniards. It is a somewhat arduous work, difficult to read, and something else is missing. Cervantes could not compete with Lope de Vega in this field (although Lope does not excite me as much as Calderón de la Barca in fact his writings are very heavy to me). Although it achieves a touching, if dramatic ending with little Viriato. This work is not a tribute to Iberian Hispania, but to the Spain of Philip II of which Numancia is his predecessor. My final grade is (2'5/5). It is a memory of what we were, and what we could be if the best of the hearts of present Spain emerged. Ave Hispania Immortalis.
As usual, you will first be told my story with Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra. The first thing you should know is that Miguel de Cervantes is one of my father's favorite writers, who has read more than thirty times the "Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and that it is his favorite book. In fact, he put a lot of effort into reading it, and offered me 10,000 pesetas of the time to read it dispensing me with some stories such as the Captive, the Shepherdess Marcela, Ricote. Unlike the specialized critics I liked much more the second part https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... that the first https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... since a more human character was perceived, and that he no longer moved to laughter. In fact it has been said that Don Quixote could be a Christic character of this has spoken my most admired Don @juan_manuel_de_prada https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . There was much talk that it was the author of "Dead Souls" Gogol https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... whom wrote the Russian Don Quixote (Chichikov), but for me it was closer to achieving Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... than Gogol. Shusaku Endo one of my favorite writers did a great job (which unfortunately could not be read because it is unpublished in Spanish) with "The wonderful fool" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... that marked a turning point in his narrative (less bitter and, more hopeful). It should be said that the first adventure of the hounds of the Transition Gonzalo, and Vicky of my friend Professor Manuel Alfonseca (they are recommended his wonderful books, and his blog Divulciencia about science) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/series/1836... They begin their adventures with a sheet left at random in a "Don Quixote" in a library. My next experience with Miguel de Cervantes was not so pleasant since I read him the exemplary novel "The Illustrious Mop" (whose review is prepared) that was a mandatory reading of the school in the first year of Bachiller became very arid due to the Spanish of the sixteenth century, and I did not find out much. I came to put as a conclusion of my reading sheet "I did not like it at all. END" My parents saw this too improper, and forced me to change my final assessment (especially the END), saying that "I had not liked it as much as other Cervantes stories of the exemplary novels" (being a piece of paper because so far none had been read. It took me a long time to start reading.) I have not yet read half of the twelve exemplary novels.
Last year I returned to Miguel de Cervantes, and I read him some more stories liking "The divorce judge" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (4/5) for being a book hostile to divorce. "Rinconete, y Cortadillo" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... a picaresque novel that almost precedes "Oliver Twist" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (I liked Dickens' work much better. I suppose because of the tenderness of the English writer) although it pains the English to admit it the eighteenth-century English novelistic of Daniel Defoe https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Oliver Goldsmith https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , by Sterne https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Henry Fielding https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and Jonathan Swift https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... has a Cervantes air in the humorous part, and realistic. That does not mean that the fantastic is not present in Cervantine prose, which it is. "The Abbey of Northanger" by Jane Austen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... has the same purpose as "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" in the first case to parody the Gothic genre, and in the case of Miguel de Cervantes to parody the novels of chivalry (at least the bad ones saving from burning "Amadis de Gaula" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... , "Tirant le Blanc" by Joanot Martorell , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and "Palmerin of England" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... (you can see that mythical scene in the library with the priest, and the barber), and incidentally writing a book that would relegate to the background those mentioned, because in the end what Cervantes ends up writing is the best possible book of chivalry).
Why did I return to Miguel de Cervantes? Because I wanted to read "La española inglesa" which was going to be my first reading, and it was going to be the first review, but living readings left me a post, and that's why I'm writing this review. In this work Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra changes gender is one of his first works, and all his life he will maintain a rivalry with Lope de Vega https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . This novel drinks a lot from the historical moment in which it is lived (I must admit that I have not read this edition but that of @alianzaeditorial but I chose this cover because I have always had a weakness for the works of the editorial catedra that I see that is not in @instagram for what I see. I like Cátedra for its prologues, and for its price. Although the prologue I have read to Alianza has not been bad at all. This work has been greatly influenced by the playwright Juan de la Cueva (the creator of the myth of Don Juan in his work "The infamous" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... (his sin more than seducing maidens is to be a blasphemous desecration defiant of the divine will both in this case and in that of Tirso de Molina if he wrote "The Mocker of Seville" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... ). Cervantes has also written about some libertines such as the Rodolfo of "La fuerza de la sangre" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... which will be discussed in another review). The historical sources that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra has used to write this work have been Appian https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... , Annaeus Floro https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , and the authors of the prologue speculate that he may have read "The History of the Jews" by Flavius Josephus https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , because there are parallels between the resistance of the Jews of Masada (here a critique of "Masada" by Ernest K. Gann https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... was written, and Flavius Josephus. appeared as a character in "The roman/S.P.Q.R." second part of "Marco el romano" by Mika Waltari https://www.goodreads.com/series/7410... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... edited by @edhasa.editorial also influenced the "History of Spain" written by Ocampo, and Ambrosio Morales https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . The authors of the prologue see influences in "The Araucan" by Alonso de Ercilla https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (let's see if you can write a review), and that so impressed Professor Manuel Alfonseca. Miguel de Cervantes in this work focuses on the final days of the Celtiberian city of Numantia. It does not count as the city of Numantia defeat, and ends with the best generals of a Rome (among them Nobilior) that after defeating the Greeks, and Carthage (in fact, it is Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus who ends with Carthage), and they send him because Numantia had become a point of no return that evidenced the crisis, and the corruption of the Roman Republic (in fact it was the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic, and as Marcos López Herrador points out https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... I change the Roman calendar). A city of 6000-8000 is able to resist an army of 70000-80000 for figures vary 7-16 years. Numantia defeated Nobilior (some consuls ended up leaving the bones in Numantia among them Nobilior. They could not conquer the city or using the tactics of Hannibal with the elephants / commanded by the Numidian Massinissa (father of Jugurtha with whom Rome ended up facing and, which was the first great campaign of Gaius Marius as consul) in this will appear Yugurtha, and Gaius Marius who here will fight together before facing each other. Quintus Caecilius Métello the Numidic, nor Publius Rutilius Rufus to know this story read "The First Man of Rome" by Colleen McCullough https://www.goodreads.com/series/4371... The first of the seven novels of the end of the Roman Republic) Apart from Nobilior Numantia survived Marcellus, Fulvius, Lucullus, Fabius Maximus, Gaius Lucius Mancinus, and Lucius Fury. Another very powerful influence of Cervantes of the "Siege of Numantia" has been "The Aeneid" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... since Numantia will be similar to Troy, and if the destruction of Troy according to the propaganda of Publius Virgil Maron serves to give birth to Rome. For Miguel de Cervantes the destruction of Numantia serves to emerge from its ashes Spain. In fact, during the work Miguel de Cervantes will not hesitate to call the Numantines Spaniards, and identify with them. According to the authors of the prologue we should not see Spain in Rome. Since Cervantes following the line of Mateo Vázquez, Eraso, Alonso de Barros adopts a Castilian nationalism. Opposed to the Romanism of Antonio Pérez https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... (which is already known how it ended). Spain is the defender of Catholicism, and there is a rivalry with Rome does not hesitate using the allegory of the Douro in boasting of the victories of the sacco of Rome of 1527, and of the victories of the Duke of Alba against His Holiness Pope Paul IV (Alba pious man entered to ask for the surrender of the Pope on his knees). Despite this Erasmist turn, Cervantes is a good Catholic and in other books he will speak very well of Rome. I recommend Dandelet's book of "Spanish Rome" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... . The play follows the classical rules of Aristotle https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , although of time, and place although they are four acts instead of three acts. He uses allegorical figures especially in Act I-IV such as Spain, the Douro, fame, war, and famine. In the play Scipio is called Caepion which confuses because there is another Roman family with the same name. The one who defeated Viriathus by treachery was called that. Thus neither Avaros, nor Megara, but if Rhetoric here called Theogenes most of the characters are invented Caravino (who will insult the Romans because they will refuse to negotiate), Marquino (the priest), who will practice necromancy to find out the fate of the city, Marondro (in love with Lyra), and Leontius the example of friendship During the play, fate will be fought against free will and pre-Calderonian honor, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... it is possible that this will be so to counteract Lutheranism and its predeterminist predestination. Faced with the Machiavellianism that Cervantes like Shakespeare will condemn https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... this will be exemplified by the Romans who seek triumph above all against honorability the Iberian voluntarism. In Spain Machiavellianism will emerge with another name called Tacitism embodied by Saavedra Fajardo https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (I am very interested in reading his writings including "Corona Gothica" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... , and Baltásar Alamo Barrientos https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , and from Westphalia (1648) will be the line to follow by Spain unable to continue by its ideology A politician that by French inspiration will be secularist, and national, and will force to seek alliances with the Dutch, and English to counteract French hegemony. The Romans are nevertheless not frowned upon, and are to sing the glory of the Numantines. The prologue rules out that Scipio is John of Austria, and represents the Spaniards. It is a somewhat arduous work, difficult to read, and something else is missing. Cervantes could not compete with Lope de Vega in this field (although Lope does not excite me as much as Calderón de la Barca in fact his writings are very heavy to me). Although it achieves a touching, if dramatic ending with little Viriato. This work is not a tribute to Iberian Hispania, but to the Spain of Philip II of which Numancia is his predecessor. My final grade is (2'5/5). It is a memory of what we were, and what we could be if the best of the hearts of present Spain emerged. Ave Hispania Immortalis.
December 28, 2025
3.5 ⭐
Un teatre de Cervantes que explica un episodi d'història. Hi ha converses i monòlegs amb personificacions ben interessants com el Duero o la Fam.
El teatre és en vers, passa en 4 jornades i la llengua no sé si és la de l'època (no fa pinta), però el que és clar és que no és actual.
Està bé i és curtet.
Un teatre de Cervantes que explica un episodi d'història. Hi ha converses i monòlegs amb personificacions ben interessants com el Duero o la Fam.
El teatre és en vers, passa en 4 jornades i la llengua no sé si és la de l'època (no fa pinta), però el que és clar és que no és actual.
Està bé i és curtet.
January 16, 2019
No es lo mejor de Cervantes que he leído. Prefiero sus novelas.
November 27, 2023
It's easy to know why he was one of the best novelists in history....he was quite bad at any other form of written expression
October 23, 2022
“¿Pones reglas al amor? / La razón debe poner. / Razonables pueden ser, más no de mucho valor.”
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En El cerco de Numancia vemos la interpretación de Cervantes de como los numantinos realizaron un suicidio colectivo antes de ser esclavos de los romanos. Con bella prosa logramos ver la precaria situación de los numantinos, apelando a nuestros sentimientos, entendemos la difícil decisión que tomaron las madres, los enamorados y los adultos mayores, mandando un mensaje sobre lo que se consideraba glorioso en las guerras. Curioso mensaje el que transmite, pensando si será compatible con los valores actuales, es una lectura que, aunque rápida, compleja de entender, es difícil identificar si hay un protagonista como tal, más aún identificar al antagonista.
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Quiero señalar que esta versión es adaptada por Pacheco, así que hay ligeros cambios en los nombres, en algunos versos para adaptar la métrica, y aunque, no cambia el mensaje, sí cambia la estructura, eliminando fragmentos, pasando de cuatro actos a únicamente tres.
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En El cerco de Numancia vemos la interpretación de Cervantes de como los numantinos realizaron un suicidio colectivo antes de ser esclavos de los romanos. Con bella prosa logramos ver la precaria situación de los numantinos, apelando a nuestros sentimientos, entendemos la difícil decisión que tomaron las madres, los enamorados y los adultos mayores, mandando un mensaje sobre lo que se consideraba glorioso en las guerras. Curioso mensaje el que transmite, pensando si será compatible con los valores actuales, es una lectura que, aunque rápida, compleja de entender, es difícil identificar si hay un protagonista como tal, más aún identificar al antagonista.
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Quiero señalar que esta versión es adaptada por Pacheco, así que hay ligeros cambios en los nombres, en algunos versos para adaptar la métrica, y aunque, no cambia el mensaje, sí cambia la estructura, eliminando fragmentos, pasando de cuatro actos a únicamente tres.
October 9, 2015
This tragedy is one of the most popular works of Cervantes before he wrote "Don Quixote." It shows the destruction of the pre-Roman city of Numancia, in Spain, in the time of Scipio Aemilianus, when this general built a rampart around the city to prevent the entrance of victuals or the escape of people, so as to defeat the Iberians by hunger. The result was that most Numantines decided to commit suicide, rather than falling into slavery.
Cervantes adds a (tragic) love story to the political-military main argument, to increase the interest of the audience. I found it interesting that felt the need to add to the play a direction for the stage manager: when the Roman army appears in the stage, have them armed with old weapons, never with harquebuses.
Cervantes adds a (tragic) love story to the political-military main argument, to increase the interest of the audience. I found it interesting that felt the need to add to the play a direction for the stage manager: when the Roman army appears in the stage, have them armed with old weapons, never with harquebuses.
February 7, 2017
Si bien España se vio derrotada en el siglo II a.d.C. por los romanos; Cervantes reivindica la nobleza de su patria en esta historia.
September 7, 2019
Relegada durante mucho tiempo a un segundo plano frente a los Entremeses, hoy día esta pieza está considerada por autores como Ruiz Ramón como "la mejor tragedia española del siglo XVI y una de las más importante del teatro español". De tema histórico-nacional (los numantinos prefieren la destrucción colectiva a la rendición a los romanos), la tragedia El cerco de Numancia (¿1580-1585?) se caracteriza por rasgos originales para la época como la no sumisión de las unidades clásicas (4 jornadas) o la mezcla de personajes alegóricos (la Guerra, la Enfermedad, el Hambre, España, el río Duero) e históricos (Escipión, Yugurta, Cayo Mario). Cervantes la supo dotar de validez universal, lo que explica su representación en épocas posteriores, como por ejemplo en 1937 de la mano de Rafael Alberti en plena guerra civil. Recientemente, se ha subrayado su originalidad, ya que rompe con atributos clásicos de la tragedia: excluye a los aristócratas del protagonismo trágico, que asumen personajes humildes, los habitantes de Numancia; y seculariza la experiencia trágica, teniendo en cuenta que no es un poder superior el que interviene fatalmente en los acontecimientos, sino la crueldad del hombre, en este caso Escipión y su ejército. Destacan a este respecto los versos que exclama el general romano: Cada cual se fabrica su destino/ no tiene aquí Fortuna alguna parte.
October 22, 2017
"A death with honour is supremest bliss, No fate can be more excellent than this."
A great drama telling the historic events of 133 BC, when Romans were sieging the city of Numantia. Cervantes has perfectly portrayed what War, Sickness & Hunger can do to a nation and how the desire for Freedom and Honor can and must endure everything.
What I loved the most was the absence of main characters and the portraying of all Numantians as one entire power/hero. Each character may represent a different aspect of life and may come from a different level of the society sphere, but during War all differences are put aside and everyone becomes one.
"Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality."
A great drama telling the historic events of 133 BC, when Romans were sieging the city of Numantia. Cervantes has perfectly portrayed what War, Sickness & Hunger can do to a nation and how the desire for Freedom and Honor can and must endure everything.
What I loved the most was the absence of main characters and the portraying of all Numantians as one entire power/hero. Each character may represent a different aspect of life and may come from a different level of the society sphere, but during War all differences are put aside and everyone becomes one.
"Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality."
January 12, 2026
Obra con gran profundidad psicológica, filosófica e histórica, ambientada en los años de resistencia numantina ante los romanos. Muestra magistralmente Cervantes el proceso bélico (no sin dosis de leyenda) y la delgada línea que separaba entonces la muerte y el honor. Es admirable cómo todavía hoy, cuatro siglos más tarde, podemos extrapolarla a los conflictos que actualmente nos asolan.
June 12, 2018
Interesante para conocer las poéticas teatrales de la época. Sobre todo si se lee acompañado de las poéticas aristotélicas. Es una obra en verso, muy distinta de las que estamos acostumbrados a disfrutar hoy día. Las notas de Gilabert son valiosas. Muy recomendado como ejercicio literario.
August 1, 2018
a potlatch and mass suicide by all inhabitants of a city.... dang. surprised this is the first Cervantes thing I read. It was in verse which I usually dont like in plays but the Roy Campbell translation was pretty good
September 26, 2023
Los romanos tienen sitiada a Numancia, los numantinos quieren negociar un acuerdo amistosos que es rechazado. Antes que aceptar la rendición decidien morir.
Me hace recordar la tragedia en la literatura griega, sustituyendo los díoses mitologicos por conceptes más terrenals.
Me hace recordar la tragedia en la literatura griega, sustituyendo los díoses mitologicos por conceptes más terrenals.
September 6, 2018
Una historia increible sobre el honor de un pueblo que no permitió rendirse ante el yugo de los romanos.
January 1, 2020
Entendiendo los anacronismos que hay en su lectura y que los celtíberos adoran a los mismos dioses que los romanos, he disfrutado muchísimo de esta obra de teatro. Cervantes nunca decepciona.
August 7, 2020
Un texto dramático interesante, con una historia muy bien narrada y conmovedora aunque difícil de imaginar en cuestiones escénicas.
March 24, 2021
No es lo mejor de Cervantes, obviamente. Sin embargo, es muy golosa de leer.
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November 29, 2021Me ha gustado. Muy potente
February 22, 2022
mu xulo
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April 25, 2022
tenía algunas frases bonitas idk
September 30, 2023
Los versos son altamente repetitivos y eso llega a ser tedioso. Fuera de eso, el contenido de la obra es muy bueno:)
January 3, 2024
Melodrama masticado y superficial.
June 15, 2024
Inconcebible obra teatral escrita por el mejor escritor que ha existido
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September 4, 2024bastant merda cervantes fes novel·les i prou
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