While the cat’s away, the mice shall play; another of Cervantes’ bored housewives gets up to some mischief while her husband goes away on business. However her plans go awry when he returns unexpectedly early, and a travelling student invents a ruse to save the day.
Leonarda cries when her husband, Pancracio, gets ready to go on a business trip, and as he’s leaving, she faints. But as soon as he is gone, she reveals it has all been for show; she an... (Read more...)
There is a mediaeval legend about a magic cave in Salamanca in which ‘the devil himself gave lessons in astrology, magic and the occult sciences to seven students for seven years’ (Smi... (Read more...)
The sexual game-playing and trickery in this play is similar to that in El viejo celoso, but here the introduction of the student character with connections to witchcraft and sorcery ad... (Read more...)
Cervantes, Miguel de. 1995. ‘Entremés de la cueva de Salamanca’. In Entremeses, ed. Nicholas Spadaccini, pp. 237-56. Madrid, Cátedra.
Cervantes, Miguel de. 1998. ‘La cueva de Salamanca... (Read more...)
Casalduero, Joaquín. 1966. Sentido y forma del teatro de Cervantes. Madrid, Gredos (in Spanish)
Cervantes, Miguel de. 1996. ‘The Magic Cave of Salamanca’. In Eight Interludes, trans. Dawn Smith, pp. 111-25. London, Everyman
Fichter, William L. 1960. ‘La cueva de Salamanca y un cuento de Bandello’. In Studia Philologica: Homenaje ofrecido a Dámaso Alonso, vol. I, pp. 525-8. Madrid, Gredos (in Spanish)
García Blanco, Miguel. 1951. ‘El tema de la cueva de Salamanca y el entremés cervantino de este título’, Anales cervantinos, 1, 73-109 (in Spanish)
McKendrick, Melveena. 2002. ‘Writings for the Stage’. In The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes, ed. Anthony J. Cascardi, pp. 131-59. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Recoules, Henri. 1972. ‘Cervantes y Timoneda y los entremeses del siglo XVII’, Boletín de la Biblioteca Menéndez y Pelayo, 48, 231-91 (in Spanish)
Spadaccini, Nicholas and Jenaro Talens. 1993. Through the Shattering Glass: Cervantes and the Self-Made World. Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press
Spadaccini, Nicholas. 1986. ‘Writing for Reading: Cervantes’s Aesthetics of Reception in the Entremeses’. In Critical Essays on Cervantes, ed. Ruth El Saffar, pp. 162-75. Boston, G. K. Hall
(Similar plays are automatically suggested by our system based on similar fields such as genres and types or keywords.)
Entry written by Kathleen Jeffs. Last updated on 25 February 2011.
This static site is hosted by King's Digital Lab to offer public access to a legacy project. It has reduced functionality to improve sustainability