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Cervantes’ Captive's Tale in English and American Literature from Massinger to Tyler*

A soldier’s first-person account of escape with a crypto-Christian woman from captivity in Algiers, told in Don Quixote, Part 1, draws on both Cervantes’ own life experience and the Mediterranean myth of escape from a tyrant with the assistance of his amorous daughter, as seen in the story of Theseus and Ariadne. Several English and American authors, influencing each other, recast the narrative over the following two centuries. Massinger’s The Renegado adapted it for the stage and reflects the Elizabethan fascination with tyrants and stereotypic Islamic women and customs. The novels of the French expatriate Bremond identified the archetypal captive with neglected Restoration wives and added farcical theatrical devices. Dryden’s drama Don Sebastian split the story into two plots, one tragic and one comic. Bickerstaff’s The Captive sang the joy of outwitting authority, while Colman’s proto-melodrama The Mountaineers restored the balance of religion and erotic desire characteristic of Cervantes’ original. Rowson and Tyler focused on the twin issues of freedom for American women and black slaves.