The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 1: a Critical Edition

From the perspective of modern scholarship, Thomas D\u27Urfey is considered a minor Restoration dramatist, but his prolific career yielded at least thirty plays and several musical scores between 1676 and 1709. All of D\u27Urfey\u27s plays contain music, and his efforts promulgated the genre of musical comedy. The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694), D\u27Urfey\u27s most successful work, was the first theatrical adaptation of Cervantes\u27 novel. This thesis establishes a critical edition of D\u27Urfey\u27s text