Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha is a 1965 Broadway musical in one act which tells the story of the classic novel Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Miguel de Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. It is performed on a single set, arranged to vaguely suggest a dungeon. All changes in location are suggested by alterations in the lighting and by the creative use of props supposedly lying around the floor of the dungeon; there are no detailed stage sets. This was done to encourage the participation of the audience's imagination in the enjoyment of the show. (More recent productions, however, have added more scenery.)

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Man of La Mancha

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By edict of the Inquisition...

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to spread subversive thought
is heresy.

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By edict of the Inquisition...

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offenders will submit
to purification...

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by sword or flame.

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By edict of the Holy Office
of the Inquisition...

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to read or interpret
the Bible...

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is a sole province
of the Church.

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You must by no means
prevail with yourself...

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that these giants
you speak of...

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were ever real men
of this world...

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and true substantial
flesh and blood.

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Confess!
What you say of all of them...

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is fable and fiction,
lies and dreams.

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The Holy Bible...

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which cannot deviate
an atom from the truth...

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tells us of
that huge Philistine Goliath...

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who was fourteen and a half
feet high...

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which is an prodigious stature.

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