It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

True, the pattern and flow of the drama have strong literary qualities that are a bit wearisome in the first half, before Don Quixote goes to the duke's court.

Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn, who danced the `` Nutcracker '' pas de deux, were also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from `` Don Quixote '', another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely.

The texts for his course include the Bible, translations of Ovid, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Montaigne's essays, Pepys's diary, Richardson's Pamela, and Franklin's autobiography.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.

(; ), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.

The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote.

Published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.

In one such list, Don Quixote was cited as the " best literary work ever written ".

He dons an old suit of armour, renames himself " Don Quixote de la Mancha ," and names his skinny horse " Rocinante ".

Don Quixote next " frees " a young boy who is tied to a tree and beaten by his master by making his master swear on the chivalric code to treat the boy fairly.

Don Quixote has a run-in with traders from Toledo, who " insult " the imaginary Dulcinea, one of whom severely beats Don Quixote and leaves him on the side of the road.

Don Quixote is found and returned to his home by a neighboring peasant.

While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.

After a short period of feigning health, Don Quixote approaches his neighbor, Sancho Panza, and asks him to be his squire, promising him governorship of an island.

Don entering the garage interrupts their conversation.

Among the spectators was the noted exotic dancer, Patti Waggin who is Mrs. Don Rudolph when off the stage.

In the line of operatic trades to cushion the budget, the Dallas Civic Opera will use San Francisco's new Leni Bauer-Ecsy production of `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' this season, returning the favor next season when San Francisco uses the Dallas `` Don Giovanni '', designed by Franco Zeffirelli.

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As he has no shield, the Basque uses a pillow to protect himself, which saves him when Don Quixote strikes him.

It is not certain when Cervantes began writing Part Two of Don Quixote, but he had probably not gotten much further than Chapter LIX by late July 1614.

The Old Castillian of Don Quixote is a Humoristic resource: he copies the language spoken in the chevalry books that made him mad ; and many times, when he talks nobody is able to understand him because his language is too old.

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After Don Quixote frees a group of galley slaves, The Knight and Sancho wander into the Sierra Morena, and there encounter the dejected Cardenio.

Cardenio relates the first part of his story, in which he falls deeply in love with his childhood friend Luscinda, and is hired as the companion to the Duke's son, leading to his friendship with the Duke's younger son, Don Fernando.

Cardenio confides in Don Fernando his love for Luscinda and the delays in their engagement, caused by Cardenio's desire to keep with tradition.

In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, when Cardenio is relating the story of he and Luscinda, he refers to " that famous Thisbe.

The content of the play is not known, but it was likely to have been based on an episode in Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote involving the character Cardenio, a young man who has been driven mad and lives in the Sierra Morena.

In the novel, Don Quixote, the character Cardenio is first encountered by Don Quixote and Sancho wandering in the desolate mountains of Sierra Morena.

Cardenio is surprised, however, at the earnestness with which the Duke's younger son, Don Fernando seeks his friendship.

Don Fernando confides in Cardenio his great desire for a young and beautiful girl of lower rank, greatly seeking to become legally engaged to her.

Cardenio urges Don Fernando not to do so, but is unable to do so, Don Fernando ultimately keeping Cardenio from telling the Duke.

Don Fernando then suggests that he and Cardenio travel to Cardenio's father's house to purchase some horses, in order to distract Don Fernando from his lovesickness.

In truth, Don Fernando has already " enjoyed " the girl he desires, gaining agency to do so by claiming to be her husband, and hopes to tell Cardenio outside of the Duke's palace.

When they arrive at the city, Cardenio immediately sees Luscinda and confides in Don Fernando his relief.

The story is briefly interrupted when Don Quixote stops Cardenio to praise the virtue depicted in the book, to which Cardenio flies into a rage, and runs off.

Cardenio is next found by Sancho, the Curate and Barber when they return to find Don Quixote.

Being a good servant, Cardenio stays, unaware of Don Fernando's perfidity happening at the time.

During the wait, Cardenio receives a letter from Luscinda telling him that Don Fernando has abducted her with plans of marriage.

Though criticized in the second false continuation of Don Quixote as being too peripheral to the plot be including in the novel, the story is a notable turn of the Quixote theme, with Don Fernando being driven to erotic madness by the reading love literature written by Cardenio.