Thomas Durfey’s ambitious dramatisation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote was issued as three separate plays. Parts 1 and 2, with a mixture of music by Henry Purcell and John Eccles, were produced in May and July 1694 at the theatre in Dorset Garden, despite ‘violent hot weather’. Both parts were very successful. Part 3, however, was a failure. It had its première at Drury Lane in November of 1695. With music by various composers it did, nevertheless, include some fine music, notably Purcell’s ‘From ro...