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.

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.

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.

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

Upon returning to his village, Don Quixote announces his plan to retire to the countryside and live the pastoral existence of shepherd, although his housekeeper, who has a more realistic view of the hard life of a shepherd, urges him to stay home and tend to his own affairs.

The second part of Cervantes ' Don Quixote, finished as a direct result of the Avellaneda book, has come to be regarded by some literary critics as superior to the first part, because of its greater depth of characterization, its discussions, mostly between Quixote and Sancho, on diverse subjects, and its philosophical insights.

The location of the village to which Cervantes alludes in the opening sentence of Don Quixote has been the subject of debate since its publication over four centuries ago.

Historically, Cervantes's work has been said to have “ smiled Spain ’ s chivalry away ”, suggesting that Don Quixote as a chivalric satire contributed to the demise of Spanish Chivalry.

In 1922, Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards published a now-forgotten expurgated children's version printed under the title The Story of Don Quixote which has nevertheless recently been published on Project Gutenberg.

Hudibras takes some of its characterization from Don Quixote but unlike that work, it has many more references to personalities and events of the day.

Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.

; Didacticism: The speaker who has discovered that Juan and Quixote are not pronounced in Spain as he used to pronounce them as a boy is not content to keep so important a piece of information to himself ; he must have the rest of us call them Hwan and Keehotay ; at any rate he will give us the chance of mending our ignorant ways by doing so.

Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha has been called " the first novel " by many literary scholars ( or the first of the modern European novels ).

His love themes are honeyed and chromatic and generally richly scored, and he is often fond of the warmth and serenity of diatonic harmony as balm after torrential chromatic textures, notably at the end of Don Quixote, where the solo cello has a surpassingly beautiful D major transformation of the main theme.

* The first part of Don Quixote has a scene in which the priest and the housekeeper of the eponymous knight go through the chivalry books that have turned him mad.

He endeavoured to please Queen Caroline, who loved literature, and he has the credit, on good grounds, of having paid the expenses of the first handsome edition of Don Quixote to please her.

In the opening of Don Quixote, Cervantes has the protagonist especially admiring Bernardo because he crushed Roland with his arms alone, although the context is clear that Don Quixote is placing too much credence in the fantastic stories of romance.

However, the Homeric questions led to his name becoming a byword for harsh and malignant criticism: in antiquity he gained the name Homeromastix, " scourge of Homer "; in the modern period, Cervantes calls Zoilus a " slanderer " in the preface to Don Quixote and there is also a ( now disused ) proverb, " Every poet has his Zoilus.

It is unclear whether or not he will be solely the voice of this character or if he will appear in person similarly to that of Max Headroom, a concept which Browder has pulled from before when writing for Farscape episode John Quixote, which used an elevator displaying a talking human interface on a screen within.

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.

Double Falshood has the plot of the " Cardenio " episode in Don Quixote.

" In Don Quixote, U. S. A., the novel by Richard P. Powell that served as a source for Bananas, the protagonist was an agronomist specializing in bananas.

It is named after Miguel de Cervantes ( 1547 – 1616 ), the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature.

His voice was considered intense and personal, and he became the narrator of important Spanish movies like Luis García Berlanga's Bienvenido Mr. Marshall ( 1953 ), Ladislao Vajda's Marcelino Pan y Vino ( 1955 ), and even the 1992 re-dubbed version of Orson Welles ' Don Quixote.

However, the most important single satirical source for the writing of novels came from Cervantes's Don Quixote ( 1605, 1615 ).

However, the most important single satirical source for the writing of novels came from Cervantes's Don Quixote ( 1605, 1615 ), which had been quickly translated from Spanish into other European languages including English.

Another prominent source, which Cervantes evidently admires more, is Tirant lo Blanch which the priest describes in Chapter VI of Quixote as " the best book in the world.

When Don Quixote only sees the peasant girls, Sancho pretends that their derelict appearance results from an enchantment.

The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.

In 1999, Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, budgeted at US $ 32. 1 million, among the highest-budgeted films to use only European financing ; but in the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote ( Jean Rochefort ) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set.

The only actor to have his singing voice dubbed is Peter O ' Toole, who stars as Cervantes and Don Quixote.

Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever wrote.

Man of la Mancha, adapted by Dale Wasserman from his own ninety-minute television play I, Don Quixote, retains much of the dialogue in that play, cutting only enough to make room for the musical numbers which were added when the play was converted into a stage musical.

* Quixote Winery, Napa Valley, ( USA ), 1988-1998 ( his only building in the US )

In Don Sylvia von Rosalva ( 1764 ), a romance in imitation of Don Quixote, he held up to ridicule his earlier faith and in the Comische Erzählungen ( 1765 ) he gave his extravagant imagination only too free a rein.

At times, Quixote goes into detail about her appearance, though he freely admits that he has seen her only fleetingly and has never spoken with her.

Don Quixote describes her appearance in the following terms: "... her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her ; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare.

The program featured not only religious stories but half-hour adaptations of literary works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick and Don Quixote.

Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera ( as " The Phantom "), The Secret Garden ( as " Archibald Craven "), Annie ( as Daddy Warbucks ), Guys and Dolls ( as " Sky Masterson "), My Fair Lady ( as " Henry Higgins "), Jekyll and Hyde ( original gothic thriller cast recording only, as " Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde "), Man of La Mancha ( as Don Quixote ), and A Little Night Music ( as Frederik Egerman ), as well as a significant supporting role in Les Misérables ( as Enjolras ).

The only named Amor IV asteroid is 3552 Don Quixote and the only other numbered Amor IV asteroid is.

Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, by Gustave Doré: their character contrasts are made manifest not only by their behavior, but also by their physical appearance.

Not only does the protagonist Daniel Quinn share his initials with the knight, but when Quinn finds " Paul Auster the writer ," Auster is in the midst of writing an article about the authorship of Don Quixote.

Back at college, Scott is quizzing Ralph about Don Quixote in their dorm room, only to learn that Ralph hasn't even read it.

In the musical Man of La Mancha, Don Quixote and his assistant Sancho Panza encounter a Barber-Surgeon, who boasts of his abilities to not only give a good shave, but bandage up any mishaps his straight razor might inflict.

As Luiz goes to announce the Duke's presence, the Duke and Duchess tell their daughter a secret that they have kept for twenty years – when she was only six months old, she was married to the infant son and heir of the King of Barataria ( a fictional island kingdom – in Don Quixote, Sancho becomes the governor of an island called Barataria ).

In the case of Lost in La Mancha, the making-of video ended up documenting the collapse and abandonment of the feature film it was covering ( The Man Who Killed Don Quixote ), and ultimately the making-of video was the only part of the production to see a commercial release as a theatrical documentary feature.

From the high Middle Ages, in works of piety, clerical critics often deemed romances to be harmful worldly distractions from more substantive or moral works, and by 1600 many secular readers would agree ; in the judgement of many learned readers in the shifting intellectual atmosphere of the seventeenth century, the romance was trite and childish literature, inspiring only broken-down ageing and provincial persons such as Don Quixote, knight of the culturally isolated province of La Mancha.

Massenet's comédie-héroïque, like so many other dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the great novel by Miguel de Cervantes.