Shakespeare and Cervantes Then and Now
An early modern transatlantic world in which information moved slowly could hardly have noticed the date, but 407 years later it registers for us: on April 23, 1616 in the Julian and the Gregorian calendars, about eleven natural days apart, something ended. And perhaps something else began.
MoreThomas Pavel examines the question of authorship for two plays, one from the 17th and the other from the 18th century, which directly relate to Cervantes' Don Quixote. Pavel's examination offers reflections on the connections between novellas and plays, as well as the possibilities of authors from the same historical period to demonstrate divergent ideas on shared subjects. This chapter has been slightly revised from its original publication by the author.
Roland Greene delivers the keynote lecture on "The Renaissance World of Cervantes and Shakespeare" at the Humanities West presentation on Shakespeare and Cervantes (February 26, 2016).
Though Shakespeare may not have invented parapraxes, he certainly exploited their psychological depths long before Freud.