Don Quixote | Setting
Knights of traditional romances travel through colorful parts of the world, such as China, North Africa, and Asia Minor; they never visit Spain. Yet Don Quixote tries to be a knight in one of Spain's least attractive regions: the treeless, desert-like, underpopulated plain of La Mancha. Far removed from the Spanish centers of power, wealth, and influence, seventeenth-century La Mancha is hardly the place from which to change the world. References to the region are invariably humorous. Don Quixote is famous "not only in Spain, but throughout La Mancha," and Dulcinea, the woman he searches...
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