The Three-Cornered Hat (novel) explained

The Three-Cornered Hat
Author:	Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Title Orig:	El sombrero de tres picos
Orig Lang Code:	es
Country:	Spain
Language:	Spanish
Genre:	Novel
Set In:	Andalusia
Pub Date:	1874

The Three-Cornered Hat (Spanish; Castilian: '''El sombrero de tres picos''') is a novel written by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in 1874.^[1] The piece should be classified as a short story and it contains popular tradition with a linear plot line.^[2] The novel has a theatrical format and it has been compared with the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quijote.^[3]

It was adapted into the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, by Manuel de Falla.^[4]

The Three-Cornered Hat has been adapted into:

• A musical comedy by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz called Revenge with Music (1934),^[5] \
• An opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai called La farsa amorosa (1933)^[6]
• An opera composed by Hugo Wolf called Der Corregidor.^[7], A Musical Comedy version by Bob Beare and Young Smith was produced by Main Street Theatre in Houston in 2002.

Notes and References

1. Web site: El sombrero de tres picos, de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón . 2017 . April 9, 2018 . . es.
2. Winslow. Richard W.. The Distinction of Structure in Alarcon's El sombrero de tres picos and El capitán veneno. Hispania. Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 46. 1963. 712–721. 0018-2133. 00182133. 2002-227125. 50709558.
3. Medina . Jeremy T. . Structural Techniques of Alarcón's "El Sombrero de Tres Picos" . Romance Notes . 14 . 1 . 1972 . 83–85 . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Romance Studies . 43802521.
4. Web site: Bedmar Estrada. Luis Pedro. "El sombrero de tres picos", de Manuel de Falla. April 8, 2018. Conservatorio Superior de Música"Rafael Orozco" de Córdoba". es.
5. Book: Lamb, Andrew . Andrew Lamb (writer) . 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre . . 2000 . 184 . 9780300075380 . The Musical Comes Ages . https://books.google.com/books?id=wYfyNV5FUQEC&pg=PA171.
6. Book: Mallach, Alan . The Autumn of Italian Opera: From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915 . . 2007 . 434 . 9781555536831 . Notes . https://books.google.com/books?id=foOntoqFSc0C&pg=PA373.
7. Book: Heywood, Stuart P. . Emergent Holistic Consciousness: The Postmodern Mystic. . 2011 . 91 . 9781456771249.