Note 144 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
This play, which Cervantes calls “Los Baños de Argel,” (Comedias, 1749, Tom. I. p. 125), opens with the landing of a Moorish corsair on the coast of Valencia; gives an account of the sufferings of the captives taken in this descent, as well as the sufferings of others afterward; and ends with a Moorish wedding and a Christian martyrdom. He says of it himself,—
No de la imaginacion Este trato se sacó, Que la verdad lo fraguó Bien lejos de la ficcion. p. 186.
The verbal resemblances between the play and the story of the Captive are chiefly in the first jornada of the play, as compared with Don Quixote, Parte I. c. 40.