Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes
- First Published: 1605
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Mock-heroic
- Time of Work: Late sixteenth century
- Setting: Spain
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Picaresque fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Villages, Books, Barbershops or barbers, Hallucinations or illusions, Sixteenth century, Spain or Spanish people, Knights or knighthood, Chivalry
- Locales: Barcelona, Spain, La Mancha, Spain
Characters Discussed
Don Quixote (kee-HOH-teh), possibly a gentle but impoverished man named Alonso Quijano (or perhaps Quixana) of Argamasilla, in the Spanish province of La Mancha. Driven mad by reading many romances of chivalry, he determines to deck himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet and to become a knight-errant. Under the name of “Don Quixote” he will roam the world, righting wrongs. His squire calls him “The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.” He has moments of lucidity, especially at the end of the novel when a victorious enemy forces him to...
[The entire page is 1064 words long]
Navigate
- Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
- Don Quixote de la Mancha (Magill Book Reviews)
- Don Quixote de la Mancha (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
- Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
See Also:
Miguel de Cervantes (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Miguel de Cervantes (Drama)Miguel de Cervantes (Dictionary of World Biography)Miguel de Cervantes (Short Fiction)Miguel de Cervantes (Long Fiction)
- Add Don Quixote de la Mancha to your favorites