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''I, Don Quixote'' is a non-musical play written for television, and broadcast on the CBS anthology series ''DuPont Show of the Month'' on the evening of November 9, 1959. Written by Dale Wasserman, the play was converted by him ca. 1964 into the libretto for the stage musical ''Man of La Mancha'', with songs by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion. After a tryout at Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut,〔(Award Winning Musical Theatre at Goodspeed Opera House and The Norma Terris Theatre in East Haddam & Chester, Conn. - Goodspeed Musicals )〕''Man of La Mancha'' opened in New York on November 22, 1965, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre.〔(IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information )〕 The title of the 1959 teleplay was originally ''Man of La Mancha'', but sponsor DuPont Corp. objected and producer David Susskind changed it to the more specific ''I, Don Quixote'', fearing that the TV audience would not know who Wasserman was referring to if the original title was used.〔Wasserman, D. "The Impossible Musical," Applause Theatre and Cinema Books 2003 pages 49 and 108.〕 Wasserman reported that he disliked this title "to this very day".〔"A Diary for ''I, Don Quixote''", ''Cervantes'' (journal of the Cervantes Society of America), vol. 21, no. 2, 2001, 117-123, on p. 122; http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/csa/articf01/diary.pdf, retrieved 09/25/2014〕 When the teleplay was made into the famous stage musical, the original title ''Man of La Mancha'' was restored. ''I, Don Quixote'' has almost exactly the same plot and even much of the same dialogue as ''Man of La Mancha''. Even the famous opening two lines of ''La Manchas hit song ''The Impossible Dream'' appeared in this teleplay. According to a recently published academic book chapter by Cervantes scholar Howard Mancing, these lines and a few others were originally written as part of a preface for the now-forgotten 1908 play "Don Quixote" by Paul Kester. Wasserman, however, always claimed that the lines were his own, despite the allegation that they appeared in print six years before he was born. Wasserman himself noted that he had tried to cut the impossible dream speech from the teleplay due to a need to fit the performance into the 90 minute slot, but that Lee J. Cobb, who played both Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote (despite the fact that Cobb was rather beefy and Don Quixote is supposed to be thin), had insisted it go back in.〔Wasserman 2003 page 50.〕 The famous apocryphal portrait of Cervantes, the Pseudo-Jáuregui, bears somewhat of a resemblance to Cobb; perhaps this is one of the reasons that he was chosen for the role.〔Miguel de Cervantes〕 ''I, Don Quixote'' starred, in addition to Cobb, Colleen Dewhurst (in her first major role) as Aldonza/Dulcinea, Eli Wallach as Cervantes' Manservant as well as Sancho Panza, and Hurd Hatfield as Sanson Carrasco as well as a character called The Duke. ==Plot summary== Miguel de Cervantes and his manservant have been thrown into a dungeon by the Spanish Inquisition for an offense against the Church. In the dungeon, a mock trial is staged, with its intention being that the prisoners rob Cervantes of all of his possessions, including a precious manuscript that he refuses to give up. It is, of course, the yet-to-be-published manuscript of ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'', Cervantes's masterpiece. In defending himself, Cervantes begins to narrate his story of Don Quixote, with Cervantes as the Don, the role of Sancho enacted by Cervantes' own manservant, and the other characters in the story played by the other prisoners. The work is not, and does not pretend to be, an accurate rendition of either Cervantes' life or the novel ''Don Quixote'' (for example, Cervantes had no direct contact with the Inquisition at any time in his life), although it draws on both for inspiration and on the latter for characters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I, Don Quixote」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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