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Don Quixote (Spanish: Don Quijote (help·info), IPA: [/ɒnˈkihoʊte/], see spelling and pronunciation below), fully titled El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moorish historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli.

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  • The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work
  • He gave his horse a name that partly means "nag" in Spanish; the name he gave himself refers to a piece of armor
  • Chapter XVI of this novel concerns "The Inn Which He Took for a Castle"
  • "Master Peter's Puppet Show" -- a puppet opera (?!) -- is based on a passage from this Cervantes work
  • Cervantes called this title character "El Ingenioso Hidalgo", the Ingenious Gentleman
  • Cervantes:"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember"
  • Rocinante
  • This literary hero dedicates his deeds of valor to Aldonza, a peasant girl he calls Dulcinea
  • This knight errant's steed in Rocinante, a draft horse originally belonging to his neighbor
  • Sancho Panza calls him "The Knight of the Sad Countenance"
  • Thinking it a giant, this character rushed at a windmill & pierced one of the sails with his lance
  • In this Cervantes novel, Alonso's plans never work out as he tries to be chivalrous
  • This tone poem by Richard Strauss was based on a book by Cervantes
  • Cervantes novel that tells us, "A knight errant without a lady is like...a body without a soul"
  • This "knight" devotes himself to Aldonza Lorenzo, whom he calls Dulcinea Del Toboso
  • This Cervantes character is "otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance"
  • In this 17th C. novel, Sancho Panza is promised, & eventually gets, the governorship of his own island
  • This Spaniard rides a bony old nag named Rocinante on his quests
  • 1605:Part One of this Spanish classic is first published
  • Some say this classic Cervantes novel is a veiled attack on the Catholic Church
  • Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel
  • He promised that if Sancho Panza became his squire, he'd make him governor of an island
  • The cover seen here is from the new edition of this classic 1605 novel
  • Cervantes' Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry
  • In the 1890s Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem based on this Cervantes novel
  • Tobias Smollett's on the list with "Peregrine Pickle" & his translation of this Spanish novel
  • Based on a 17th century satire, this tone poem from composer Richard Strauss features a viola as Sancho Panza
  • Spanish thinker Ortega y Gasset said that heroism is within all of us in "Meditations on" this literary character
  • I'm too svelte to play Sancho Panza, so I'll dance this title role instead
  • The opening line of this 1605 novel mentions a lance, a shield & a skinny nag
  • Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills"
  • The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo"
  • In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man "without much salt in his brain-pan"
  • In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work
  • "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name, there lived not long ago a gentleman"
  • Cervantes is believed to have begun writing this classic in 1597 or 1598 while confined to a Seville jail
  • Jules Massenet composed an opera based on this famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit
  • Cervantes at your service; long knight's journey into day; Rocinante is the horse he rode in on
  • Sancho Panza, a rustic squire
  • A broken-down old nag is called a Rosinante in honor of this Spanish character's scrawny horse
  • This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills"
  • Act 1, Scene 1 of this Balanchine ballet based on this novel is set in La Mancha
  • Sancho Panza gets chased after stealing a bird in a ballet based on this novel
  • This character's squire was Sancho Panza
  • In an 1869 Marius Petipa ballet he puts a metal basin on as a helmet & goes seeking adventure
  • This title character of Spanish literature is called "A muddled fool, full of lucid intervals"
  • When Balanchine choreographed this ballet in 1965, he played the title role & Suzanne Farrell was his Dulcinea

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