The Three-Cornered Hat (novel)

The Three-Cornered Hat

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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 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.

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

The 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

1. "El sombrero de tres picos, de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Lamb, Andrew (2000). "The Musical Comes Ages". 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre. Yale University Press. p. 184. ISBN   9780300075380.
6. Mallach, Alan (2007). "Notes". The Autumn of Italian Opera: From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915. UPNE. p. 434. ISBN   9781555536831.
7. Heywood, Stuart P. (2011). Emergent Holistic Consciousness: The Postmodern Mystic. AuthorHouse. p. 91. ISBN   9781456771249.