The little white attic

1/ In Don Quixote: An Introductory Essay in Psychology (which is rather good), Salvador de Madariaga writes:  “Don Quixote, Sancho, Don Jua...

 Some photos of me at Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, England. 

Life Is a Dream ( La vida es sueño ) is one of Calderón’s most famous plays, probably written around the same time as The Surgeon of Honour...

Before I begin, here’s some context: Calderón, born in 1600, is Lope de Vega’s successor on the Spanish stage. Wikipedia says “Calderón is ...

Fuenteovejuna , sometimes spelt Fuente Ovejuna , is another famous play by Lope de Vega. I read Jill Booty’s translation from 1961. It was ...

Online I have often come across the suggestion that it was thanks to the fake Part 2 by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda that Cervantes starte...

Born 15 years after Cervantes and 2 years before Shakespeare, Lope de Vega died 19 years after the two of them and claimed to have written s...

How fascinating that Shakespeare and Cervantes—especially the characters of Hamlet and Don Quixote—loom large in Russian consciousness. I ha...

Is Don Quixote my new obsession? Well, as you can see…  After Fighting Windmills: Encounter with Don Quixote , a very good book by Manuel Du...

The loveliest person in the world gave me this present for my birthday! Look!  (I am at this moment reading Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures ...