Scipio’s Roman army surrounds the Celtiberian city of Numantia and resolves to starve it into submission rather than storm it. Inside the walls, the citizens debate, pray and love while famine closes in. First staged in Madrid around 1586, the play is given here in James Gibson’s English verse translation.
The finest drama of Cervantes, a stirring tragedy of national pride that still speaks to readers. Download the free EPUB.