Publisher's Synopsis
While Orson Welles was filming Chimes at Midnight in 1965, producer Emiliano Piedra asked playright Antonio Buero Vallejo (who had recently enjoyed considerable success with his Spanish version of Hamlet) for a Spanish script which would sound like the equivalent Shakesperean language. Ironically, the Buero Vallejo screenplay was not used, due to its literary style -- it was written in free verse and the "Castilian of the Picaresque". Up until now, it was considered lost. Now recovered, the previously unpublished script for Campanas a Medianoche helps. reveal the changes that happened to Welles' film.
