The Three-Cornered Hat (novel)

The Three-Cornered Hat (El sombrero de tres picos) is a novel written by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in 1874. The piece should be classified as a short story and it contains popular tradition with a linear plot line. The novel has a theatrical format and it has been compared with the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quijote.

It was adapted into the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, by Manuel de Falla.

The Three-Cornered Hat has been adapted into:
 * A musical comedy by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz called Revenge with Music (1934), \
 * An opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai called La farsa amorosa (1933)
 * An opera composed by Hugo Wolf called Der Corregidor., A Musical Comedy version by Bob Beare and Young Smith was produced by Main Street Theatre in Houston in 2002.