Open Access<em>La gitanilla</em> en el teatro cómico victoriano. Textos y contextos
Author(s) -
Laura Monrós-Gaspar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
anales cervantinos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.139
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8325
pISSN - 0569-9878
DOI - 10.3989/anacervantinos.2017.011
Subject(s) - humanities , art , philosophy
The Victorian fascination with gipsies is framed within an anthropological, aesthetic and social interest in the portrayal of the other within the limits of a vast and growing Empire in the nineteenth century. Within this context, as I shall demonstrate in this article, besides the European obsession with the figure of the Cervantean Spanish gipsy, the performing possibilities of the character in a theatrical milieu in constant change and debate favour the refigurations of the gitanilla in various and particular dramatic genres. From this double perspective, this paper focuses on the transmission and reception of the Cervantean narrative through The Gipsy Maid (1861) by William Brough and The Merry Zingara (1868) by W. S. Gilbert