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The Three-Cornered Hat (novel)


The Three-Cornered Hat (novel)


The Three-Cornered Hat (Spanish: El sombrero de tres picos) is a novel written by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in 1874. The piece should be classified as a short story and it contains popular tradition with a linear plot line. The novel has a theatrical format and it has been compared with the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quijote.

It was adapted into the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, by Manuel de Falla.

The Three-Cornered Hat has been adapted into:

  • A musical comedy by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz called Revenge with Music (1934),\
  • An opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai called La farsa amorosa (1933)
  • An opera composed by Hugo Wolf called Der Corregidor., A Musical Comedy version by Bob Beare and Young Smith was produced by Main Street Theatre in Houston in 2002.

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