Don Quixote de la Mancha (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Principal Characters: Don Quixote de la Mancha, Sancho Panza, Aldonza Lorenzo, Pedro Perez, Master Nicholas, Samson Carrasco
- 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
The Story:
A retired and impoverished gentleman named Alonzo Quixano lived in the Spanish province of La Mancha. He had read so many romances of chivalry that his mind became overwhelmed with fantastic accounts of tournaments, knightly quests, damsels in distress, and strange enchantments, and he decided one day to imitate the heroes of the books he read and to revive the ancient custom of knight-errantry. Changing his name to Don Quixote de la Mancha, he had himself dubbed a knight by a publican whose miserable inn he mistook for a turreted castle.
For armor he donned...
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