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Don Quixote, Knight Errant (Spanish: El caballero Don Quijote) is a 2002 Spanish adventure film directed and written by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, consisting of an adaptation of the second part of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.
The plot revolves around the adventures of a member of the lowest nobility, a hidalgo from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha.
In Don Quixote (1605), Miguel de Cervantes burlesqued the romances and their popularity. Tales of knight-errantry then fell out of fashion for two centuries, until they re-emerged in the form of the historical novel in Romanticism . Romance.
May 6, 2024 · Don Quixote, 17th-century Spanish literary character, the protagonist of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The book, originally published in Spanish in two parts (1605, 1615), concerns the eponymous would-be knight errant whose delusions of grandeur make him the butt of many practical jokes.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The work opens in a village of La Mancha, Spain, where a country gentleman’s infatuation with books of chivalry leads him to decide to become a knight-errant, and he assumes the name Don Quixote. He finds an antique suit of armour and attaches a visor made of pasteboard to an old helmet.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the Second Part, whenever Don Quixote feels melancholy or dissatisfied with his life as a knight-errant, his behavior becomes much more sane, and he fully controls his own actions.
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The Knight is a mysterious figure to Don Quixote, but is known to the reader as Samson Currasco, an old peer of Don Quixote’s who wants to bring Don Quixote back to reality. The Knight tells Don Quixote that, should he lose the duel, he must return home and give up knight-errantry for a year.
