- 01Contents of Volume I
- 02Introduction
- 03Prefatory Cervantes
- 04Don Quixote
- 05The Author’s Preface
- 06Commendatory Verses
- 01Chapter I: Don Quixote's character and pursuits
- 01Chapter XV: The Yanguesan Adventure
- 01Chapter XXVI: Don Quixote’s refinements as a lover in the Sierra Morena
- 01Chapter XXXIX: The captive's life and adventures
Don Quixote
Fiction, idealism, reality, and modernity.
139Chapters
405Lessons
960Topics
Certificate of completion included
This course was produced by Cavua from a public-domain text.
Skills this course leaves you with.
- Analyze the themes of idealism, reality, and modernity in Don Quixote
- Trace the plot and major episodes across the novel’s chapters
- Interpret Cervantes’ satire of chivalric romances and social conventions
- Explain the roles of Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and other key characters
- Assess the novel’s literary significance and influence on the modern novel
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- Chapters
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- Lessons
- 405
- Topics
- 960
- 01Contents of Volume II
- 01Chapter XXIII: The Cave of Montesinos
- 02Chapter XXIV: Trifling Matters for the History
- 03Chapter XXV: The Braying Adventure and the Puppet-Showman
- 04Chapter XXVI: The Puppet-Showman Continued
- 05Chapter XXVII: Master Pedro, His Ape, and the Braying Mishap
- 06Chapters XXVIII-XXXV: Later Adventures and Dulcinea's Disenchantment
- 01Chapter XXXVI: The Distressed Duenna, Alias the Countess Trifaldi
- 01Chapter XLVIII: Doña Rodriguez and other occurrences
- 02Chapter XLIX: Sancho’s round of his island
- 03Chapter L: The enchanters and the page to Teresa Panza
- 04Chapter LI: Sancho’s government
- 05Chapter LII: The second distressed duenna
- 06Chapter LIII: The end of Sancho’s government
- 01Chapter LX to Chapter LXXIII chapter list
- 01Don Quixote's sickness, will, and death
- 01Shelton’s early translation and its limits
- 02Later English versions: Phillips, Ward, Motteux, and Jervas
- 01Later translations and their defects
- 02Fidelity to Cervantes in translation
- 01Avoiding affectation in translation
- 02Preserving familiar names and phrases
- 01Navarrete’s documentary biography
- 02Cervantes family origins
- 01Origin of the Cervantes surname from Cervatos and San Cervantes
- 02Cervantes family branches and descendants
- 01Cervantes's birth and early reading
- 02Spain's political and literary transition
- 01Alcalá de Henares and early reading
- 02Questioning Salamanca and the evidence for Cervantes's schooling
- 03Juan López de Hoyos and the 1569 verses
- 04Departure for Italy with Cardinal Acquaviva
- 01Battle of Lepanto and Cervantes's wounds
- 02Return to service and capture by Algerine galleys
- 03Ransom efforts and first escape attempt in Algiers
- 01First and second escape attempts from Algiers
- 01Release from Algiers and evidence against Blanco de Paz
- 02Return to Spain and military service in Portugal and the Azores
- 01Turning from soldiering to literature
- 02Early plays and dramatic failure
- 03Literary prize and tax-collector troubles
- 01Composition and early circulation of Don Quixote
- 02Cervantes’s literary ambitions and delayed Second Part
- 03Avellaneda’s spurious continuation
- 01Avellaneda’s personal attack and literary worth
- 02How Avellaneda forced the completion of Don Quixote
- 03Publication of the second part and the comedies and interludes
- 01Death and final dramatic work
- 02Assessment of Cervantes’ life and poverty
- 03Burial, neglect, and Spain’s reception of Don Quixote
- 04Monuments and posthumous reputation
- 01Widespread editions and translations
- 02Cosmopolitan yet deeply Spanish character
- 03Catholic appeal to all readers
- 04Farce and early popular reception
- 01Lord Carteret’s 1738 London edition
- 02Changing critical views of Don Quixote
- 03Romances of chivalry as the source
- 01Cervantes did not destroy chivalry
- 02The real target of Don Quixote
- 03The book's moral and structure
- 01Sancho Panza’s origin and role
- 02Cervantes’s revised plan for the Second Part
- 03Don Quixote and Sancho as popular realities
- 01Don Quixote’s madness and sanity
- 02Sancho’s character and mendacity
- 03Burlesque of chivalric romance and Dulcinea
- 01Dulcinea and burlesque of courtly love
- 02The novel’s simplicity and La Mancha
- 03Incongruity as the source of humour
- 01Incongruity in Don Quixote's surroundings
- 02Cervantes' grave, matter-of-fact humour
- 03Spanish gravity and the difficulty of translation
- 01Humour as the defining quality of Don Quixote
- 01The author’s difficulty with the preface
- 01Sonnets, quotations, and marginal notes
- 01Latin quotations and scholarly annotations
- 02Borrowed references to authors from A to Z
- 01No need for borrowed authorities
- 01Commendatory verses to Don Quixote
- 02Amadis of Gaul sonnet
- 03Don Belianis of Greece sonnet
- 04The Lady of Oriana sonnet
- 01Sonnet to Sancho Panza
- 02Mock-heroic verses on Sancho and Rocinante
- 03Sonnet to Don Quixote from Orlando Furioso
- 04Sonnet of the Knight of Phœbus
- 01Sonnet to Don Quixote of La Mancha
- 02Dialogue Between Babieca and Rocinante
- 01Dedication to the Duke of Bejar
- 01Don Quixote's household and habits
- 02His obsession with books of chivalry
- 01Books of chivalry and the loss of his wits
- 01Rocinante and Don Quixote's chosen name
- 02The Lady of His Thoughts, Dulcinea del Toboso
- 01Don Quixote’s first departure and knightly reflections
- 02The inn mistaken for a castle
- 03Dinner, music, and the need for knighthood
- 01Don Quixote requests knighthood
- 02The landlord’s mock chivalric response
- 01Money and provisions for knights-errant
- 02Watching the armour in the inn yard
- 03The carrier disturbs the armour
- 01Don Quixote strikes the carriers
- 02The second attack and the innkeeper’s intervention
- 03The landlord decides to dub him knight
- 01The knighting ceremony at the inn
- 01Don Quixote sets out for home
- 02Don Quixote intervenes for Andres
- 03Juan Haldudo promises payment
- 01Andres’s punishment and Don Quixote’s self-congratulation
- 02The Toledo traders and the demand to praise Dulcinea
- 03Rocinante’s stumble and the muleteer’s beating
- 01Don Quixote’s imitation of the wounded knight
- 02The peasant’s discovery and questioning
- 01Return to the village with Don Quixote
- 02Household alarm at his arrival
- 01Household alarm over Don Quixote's disappearance
- 02The curate and barber condemn the chivalric books
- 03Don Quixote's return and imagined battle wounds
- 01The curate questions the peasant
- 01The library purge of chivalric romances
- 01Tirante el Blanco
- 02Books of poetry and pastoral romances
- 01Don Quixote's fevered delusions after the books are burned
- 02The room is walled up and the books vanish by magic
- 03Fifteen days at home debating knight-errantry
- 01Sancho Panza joins as squire
- 02Preparing for the sally
- 03Promises of an island and kingdom
- 04Sancho's hopes for his family
- 01The windmills mistaken for giants
- 02The aftermath of the windmill fall
- 03The friars and the coach
- 04Don Quixote and the Biscayan's duel
- 05The interrupted history and missing conclusion
- 01The missing continuation of the history
- 02Discovery of the Arabic manuscript
- 01Don Quixote’s attack on the Biscayan
- 02The ladies plead for mercy
- 01Sancho’s plea for the promised island
- 02The Holy Brotherhood and knight-errantry
- 03The balsam of Fierabras
- 04The shattered helmet and vows of vengeance
- 05Food, fasting, and the night among the goatherds
- 01Goatherds' supper and Sancho's refusal of honors
- 01Don Quixote's praise of the golden age
- 01Antonio sings his love ballad
- 02Sancho seeks sleep and the goatherd treats the ear wound
- 01Chrysostom's death and burial plans
- 02Chrysostom's learning and love for Marcela
- 03Marcela's family background
- 01Marcela’s upbringing and inheritance
- 02Marcela’s refusal of marriage
- 03Marcela’s shepherdess life and rejection of suitors
- 01Journey to Chrysostom’s burial
- 02Vivaldo’s account of Marcela and Chrysostom
- 03Don Quixote on the knight-errant’s calling
- 01Knight-errantry and the order of chivalry
- 02The knight-errant’s hardships and duties
- 01Dulcinea del Toboso and the knight-errant's lady
- 01Chrysostom’s funeral bier and grave
- 02Vivaldo’s plea to save the papers
- 01Chrysostom’s lament of despair
- 01Ambrosio’s defense of Marcela
- 02Marcela’s defense of her freedom and beauty
- 01Marcela's defense and Don Quixote's protection
- 02Chrysostom's burial and farewell
- 03Don Quixote's resolve to seek Marcela
- 01Rest in the glade and Rocinante's encounter with the Yanguesan ponies
- 02Don Quixote and Sancho's attack on the Yanguesans
- 03Aftermath of the beating and Don Quixote's warning to Sancho
- 01Sancho's refusal of knightly retaliation
- 02Don Quixote's lesson on chivalric governance and endurance
- 03Examples of knights' sufferings and the law of the duel
- 01Sancho carries Don Quixote toward the road
- 01Don Quixote’s lodging and plastering
- 02Sancho’s account of knight-errantry
- 03Don Quixote’s castle delusion
- 04Maritornes, the carrier, and the nighttime brawl
- 05Nighttime brawl in the inn
- 01Don Quixote’s account of the enchanted castle
- 02Sancho’s bruises and the balsam remedy
- 03The cuadrillero’s lamp blow
- 01Preparation of the salutiferous balsam
- 02Don Quixote's trial of the balsam
- 03Sancho Panza's disastrous dose
- 01Sancho’s illness after the balsam
- 02Don Quixote demands payment at the inn
- 03Sancho refuses to pay and is blanketed
- 04Sancho’s departure and the detained alforjas
- 01Sancho's beating and Don Quixote's enchantment theory
- 02Sancho's plea to return home
- 03Don Quixote's defense of chivalry
- 01Sancho’s complaint about their defeats
- 02The imagined armies of Alifanfaron and Pentapolin
- 03Don Quixote’s catalogue of phantom knights and nations
- 04The charge against the sheep
- 01Don Quixote attacks the flock of sheep
- 02Sancho finds his master wounded
- 03Don Quixote explains the enchantment
- 01The balsam vomit and missing alforjas
- 02Don Quixote’s consolation and Sancho’s complaint
- 03Teeth lost and the search for shelter
- 01Sancho's rebuke and Don Quixote's forgotten oath
- 02The night road and the approaching lights
- 01Night procession of encamisados and the bier
- 02The bachelor’s complaint and Don Quixote’s defense
- 03Sancho’s spoils and the Knight of the Rueful Countenance
- 01The Knight of the Rueful Countenance
- 02Retreat to the valley and meal
- 01The ominous night sounds in the meadow
- 02Don Quixote resolves to face the adventure
- 03Sancho’s pleas and the delay until dawn
- 04Sancho ties Rocinante’s legs and tells a story
- 01Sancho’s tale of Lope Ruiz and Torralva
- 02Sancho’s embarrassment and Don Quixote’s mockery
- 03Don Quixote prepares to enter the adventure
- 01Discovery of the fulling mills
- 02Don Quixote rebukes Sancho's laughter
- 03Master and squire: wages and respect
- 01Don Quixote mistakes the barber’s basin for Mambrino’s helmet
- 02Sancho’s doubts and the rules of chivalric spoil
- 01Sancho’s proposal to seek service under a prince
- 02Don Quixote’s fantasy of courtly advancement and marriage
- 03Royal lineage, seizure, and Sancho’s future countship
- 04Sancho’s barber and count ambitions
- 05Don Quixote’s promise of kingship and advancement
- 01Don Quixote confronts the galley slaves
- 02The prisoners explain their crimes
- 03Gines de Pasamonte and his unfinished life story
- 04Don Quixote frees the galley slaves
- 05The slaves’ refusal and Don Quixote’s defeat
- 01Don Quixote yields to Sancho’s warning
- 02Entering the Sierra Morena and camping for the night
- 03Gines de Pasamonte steals Sancho’s ass
- 01Discovery of the valise and memorandum book
- 02The sonnet and rejected-lover letter
- 03Search for the owner in the Sierra Morena
- 01The ragged youth’s first appearance and thefts
- 02Madness, Fernando, and the goatherds’ plan to cure him
- 01The youth appears in the gorge
- 01Cardenio’s account of his misfortunes
- 01Cardenio enters Duke Ricardo's service
- 02Don Fernando's love for the peasant girl
- 03Return home and Don Fernando's interest in Luscinda
- 01Queen Madasima and Master Elisabad
- 02Cardenio’s attack and the beard-pulling quarrel
- 03Searching for Cardenio’s hiding-place
- 01Sancho’s complaint about silence and the mountains
- 02Don Quixote defends Queen Madasima
- 03The purpose of wandering the Sierra Morena
- 01Amadis of Gaul as the model of chivalry
- 02Imitating Amadis and Roland through penance and madness
- 03Sancho’s doubts about chivalric illusions
- 01Don Quixote chooses his penance site
- 02Sancho questions the planned penance
- 03The letter and ass-colt order
- 04Sancho identifies Dulcinea as Aldonza Lorenzo
- 01Don Quixote's defense of Dulcinea
- 01Don Quixote's letter to Dulcinea
- 02Sancho's departure and broom markers
- 03Don Quixote's naked antics
- 01Don Quixote weighs Roland against Amadis
- 02Rosary, prayers, and verses for Dulcinea
- 01Sancho’s journey to El Toboso and encounter with the curate and barber
- 02The lost notebook, Dulcinea’s letter, and the missing ass-colts order
- 03Sancho’s recollection of the letter and his hopes for advancement
- 01The curate's disguise scheme
- 01The curate and barber prepare their disguise
- 01Sancho guides the curate and barber into the Sierra
- 02The sung verses on love, chance, and death
- 03The sonnet to holy Friendship
- 01Cardenio’s meeting with the curate and barber
- 02Luscinda’s letter and Don Fernando’s betrayal
- 03Luscinda’s secret betrothal and warning
- 04Luscinda’s wedding ceremony
- 01Luscinda’s forced consent and fainting
- 02Cardenio’s flight from the wedding
- 03Exile in the mountains and madness
- 01Cardenio's lament and closing words
- 01The disguised damsel by the brook
- 01Dorothea’s family background and household life
- 02Don Fernando’s courtship and secret betrothal
- 03Don Fernando’s seduction and abandonment
- 04Luscinda’s betrothal and disappearance
- 01The lady's flight and disgrace
- 01Dorothea reveals her misfortunes
- 02Cardenio identifies himself and proposes a future union
- 03The curate and barber offer help
- 04Sancho reports Don Quixote's penance
- 01Dorothea’s disguise as Princess Micomicona
- 02Don Quixote grants the princess’s boon
- 03Sancho’s hopes of empire and profit
- 01Curate’s disguise and roadside reunion
- 02The beard miracle and departure toward Micomicon
- 01The curate's robbery and the freed galley slaves
- 01Don Quixote defends the galley slaves
- 02Dorothea begins the Princess Micomicona tale
- 03Tinacrio’s prophecy and the quest for Don Quixote
- 04Dorothea’s landing and Don Quixote’s vow
- 05Sancho urges the marriage and is beaten
- 06Don Quixote’s defense of Dulcinea
- 07Sancho’s plea for the promised rewards
- 08Dorothea restores peace
- 01Sancho's reunion with Dapple
- 02Dorothea's fabricated story and the curate's remarks
- 03Don Quixote questions Sancho about Dulcinea's letter
- 01Sancho’s account of Dulcinea’s labor
- 02The supposed fragrance and letter from Dulcinea
- 03Don Quixote’s explanation of enchanted travel
- 04Sancho urges him to accept the kingdom
- 01Don Quixote and Sancho on marriage and the promised kingdom
- 01Andres confronts Don Quixote about the oak-tree rescue
- 02Don Quixote vows to punish the master again
- 03Sancho gives Andres bread and cheese
- 01Arrival at the inn and reunion with the innkeepers
- 02The innkeeper’s praise of books of chivalry
- 03The curate examines the inn’s books
- 01The curate and the landlord debate chivalric romances
- 01Discovery of the manuscript novel
- 02The curate agrees to read aloud
- 01Anselmo and Lothario’s friendship
- 02Camilla’s marriage and Lothario’s cautious visits
- 03Anselmo’s strange desire for a test
- 01Anselmo's test of Camilla's virtue
- 01Lothario’s defense of friendship and honor
- 02The folly of testing Camilla’s virtue
- 01Lothario's warning against testing Camilla
- 02Anselmo's insistence on the stratagem
- 03Lothario yields to avoid greater harm
- 01Anselmo arranges Lothario’s courtship
- 02Lothario’s evasive first visit
- 01Lothario’s false reports and Anselmo’s new temptation
- 02Anselmo’s keyhole surveillance and departure
- 01Anselmo’s departure and household instructions
- 02Lothario’s growing temptation
- 03Camilla’s alarm and letter to Anselmo
- 01Camilla’s letter and Anselmo’s reply
- 02Lothario’s siege of Camilla
- 01Lothario’s report on Camilla’s chastity
- 02The Chloris pretense and the sonnet
- 01Camilla’s doubts about yielding too quickly
- 02Leonela’s counsel on love and worth
- 03Leonela’s affair and Lothario’s jealousy
- 01Lothario's false warning and Anselmo's concealment
- 02Lothario's remorse and Camilla's complaint about Leonela
- 01Camilla’s deception and plan
- 02Leonela’s staged outrage and Anselmo’s concealment
- 03Camilla’s feigned resolve to kill Lothario
- 01Camilla’s vow of vengeance
- 02Camilla’s interrogation of Lothario
- 03The staged dagger attack
- 01Camilla’s feigned wound and Lothario’s performance
- 02Leonela’s care and the cover story
- 01Anselmo’s joy at Camilla’s supposed purity
- 02The final deception and Anselmo’s death
- 01Sancho reports the giant's defeat
- 02Don Quixote's wine-skin battle
- 03The innkeeper's complaint over damages
- 01Anselmo’s discovery of Leonela’s secret
- 02Camilla’s flight and Anselmo’s ruin
- 03Anselmo’s death and the tale’s ending
- 01The veiled party arrives at the inn
- 02The servants know little of their masters
- 01Recognition of Luscinda and Don Fernando
- 01Dorothea’s plea to Don Fernando
- 02Luscinda and Cardenio reunited
- 01Don Fernando’s repentance and reconciliation
- 02Luscinda’s abduction from the convent
- 01The inn’s confusions resolved
- 01The captive and the Moorish lady
- 01Arms and letters compared
- 01Don Quixote’s comparison of soldiers and scholars
- 02The captive’s promised life story
- 01Family origin and the father's prodigality
- 02The father's division of his property
- 03Three careers for his sons
- 01Division of the family estate and careers
- 02Military service in Flanders and the Holy League
- 01Capture at Lepanto and imprisonment
- 02Navarino expedition and the Prize
- 01Return to Constantinople and the fall of Tunis
- 02Siege and capture of the Goletta and the fort
- 01Christians taken in the fort and Don Pedro de Aguilar
- 01The captive’s sonnets on the fall of the fort
- 02Destruction of the Goletta and Uchali’s rise
- 03Life in the Algiers baño and the Moorish signal
- 01The hidden signal at the window
- 02The Moorish lady’s letter and the renegade’s translation
- 03The reply to Zoraida and the plan for escape
- 01Zoraida’s ransom proposal
- 02Buying the vessel and ransoming the captives
- 01Renegade's vessel and Shershel cover voyage
- 02Plans to recruit Christian rowers for departure
- 01Zoraida’s appearance in the garden
- 02Planning the departure with Zoraida
- 03Feigning faintness to avoid suspicion
- 01Seizing the vessel and rescuing Zoraida
- 01Zoraida’s plea to free her father
- 02Escape by sea toward Christian land
- 03The father’s grief and recognition
- 01Zoraida revealed as a Christian
- 02The Moor's despair and rescue at sea
- 03Sheltering at the Cava rumia creek
- 01Release of the Moorish captives
- 02Zoraida's father's lament and farewell
- 03Voyage resumes toward Spain
- 01Attack by French corsairs
- 02Robbery and release near the Spanish coast
- 01Landing and first night ashore
- 02Search for shelter and the shepherd's alarm
- 01Arrival at Velez Malaga and recognition by the Christians
- 02Zoraida’s welcome, the church, and lodging with the renegade
- 01Departure from Velez and Zoraida's future
- 01Don Fernando's praise and offers to the captive
- 02The Judge arrives at the inn with a young lady
- 01The Judge’s arrival at the inn
- 02The captive recognizes his brother
- 01The curate identifies Ruy Perez de Viedma
- 01The Judge learns of his brother's captivity
- 02The brothers' reunion and plans for Zoraida
- 01Don Quixote's watch at the inn
- 02The sweet voice before dawn
- 01The singer’s love song
- 02Doña Clara’s confession of love
- 01Doña Clara’s refusal and hopes for daylight
- 02Maritornes and the landlady’s daughter mock Don Quixote at the loophole
- 03Don Quixote mistakes the loophole for a castle window
- 01Don Quixote's enchantment while fastened
- 02The armed horsemen at the inn gate
- 01The four horsemen demand entry
- 02Don Quixote’s dispute over the inn
- 03Rocinante’s movement and the strappado-like fall
- 01Don Quixote’s renewed challenge at the inn gate
- 02The search for Don Luis
- 03Don Luis confronted by his father’s servant
- 04Cardenio and Dorothea learn the news
- 01Don Luis confronted by his servants
- 02The Judge recognizes Don Luis
- 03The landlord's quarrel with departing guests
- 01Don Quixote refuses to intervene in the landlord’s fight
- 02Don Luis confesses his love for Doña Clara
- 01Don Luis confesses his love to the Judge
- 02The barber reclaims the basin and pack-saddle
- 01The basin and helmet dispute
- 02The pack-saddle or caparison vote
- 01The quarrel erupts into violence
- 02Don Luis’s departure is arranged
- 03The Holy Brotherhood warrant against Don Quixote
- 01The warrant of arrest and the struggle
- 02Don Quixote’s defense of knight-errantry
- 01Settlement of the officers' arrest and the inn disputes
- 01Don Quixote’s resolve to continue the quest
- 02Dorothea’s consent and immediate departure
- 03Sancho’s warning about hidden trouble
- 01Sancho questions Dorothea’s queenly claim
- 02Don Quixote’s furious rebuke of Sancho
- 03Dorothea calms Don Quixote
- 01The blanket affair
- 02Plan to carry Don Quixote away in a cage
- 01The enchanted captivity of Don Quixote
- 02The prophecy of marriage and reward
- 01Don Quixote’s objections to being caged
- 02Farewells and departure from the inn
- 03The procession meets the canon of Toledo
- 01Sancho defends Don Quixote’s enchantment
- 02The canon’s critique of books of chivalry
- 03The canon’s defense of imaginative fiction
- 01Critique of books of chivalry and dramatic taste
- 01Critique of contemporary Spanish drama
- 02Public amusement and censorship of plays
- 01The canon’s halt in the valley
- 02Sancho challenges the enchantment
- 03Don Quixote defends the enchantment
- 04Sancho’s question about bodily necessity
- 01Sancho's argument against enchantment
- 02Don Quixote's defense of his enchantment
- 03Plan to escape the cage and resume adventures
- 04Arrival at the waiting party
- 01Release from the cage
- 02Canon's attack on books of chivalry
- 01Don Quixote's defense of knight-errantry
- 01Examples of legendary knights and relics
- 02Canon’s concession and skepticism about chivalric books
- 01Don Quixote's defense of knight-errant romances
- 01Sancho's promised county
- 01The goatherd’s true story
- 01Leandra's beauty and reputation
- 02Suitors and the father's indecision
- 01Vicente de la Roca's return in soldier's finery
- 02Leandra's infatuation and elopement
- 01Leandra found in the mountain cave
- 02Confession of Vicente de la Roca's deception
- 03Leandra sent to a convent
- 04Anselmo and the lovers in the valley
- 01Shepherds’ complaints over Leandra
- 01Don Quixote’s promise to rescue Leandra
- 02The goatherd’s skepticism and the quarrel
- 01Don Quixote’s fight with the goatherd
- 02The procession of penitents
- 03Return to Don Quixote’s village
- 01Sancho Panza’s homecoming and Teresa’s questions
- 02Don Quixote restored to bed and guarded
- 01Discovery of the leaden box and manuscript
- 02Academicians of Argamasilla epitaph on Don Quixote
- 01Sonnet in Praise of Dulcinea del Toboso
- 02Sonnet in Praise of Rocinante
- 01Sonnet on Sancho Panza
- 02Epitaph on Don Quixote
- 03Epitaph on Dulcinea del Toboso
- 01Dedication to the Count of Lemos
- 01Defense against the spurious sequel
- 02Praise of patrons and literary protection
- 03Announcement of the Second Part and future works
- 01Don Quixote’s apparent recovery
- 02Proposal to summon knights-errant against the Turk
- 01The licentiate’s sane letters to the archbishop
- 02The chaplain’s interview and the madman’s warning
- 01Defense of knight-errantry
- 01Don Quixote defends the reality of knights-errant
- 02Descriptions of Amadis, giants, and the Twelve Peers
- 03Angelica, Medoro, and poetic satire
- 01Sancho’s quarrel at the door
- 01Don Quixote’s complaint about Sancho’s words
- 02Sancho’s account of public opinion
- 01Village opinions of Don Quixote and Sancho
- 02Don Quixote’s defense against calumny
- 03Sancho’s report of the printed history
- 01Cide Hamete Berengena and the bachelor Samson Carrasco
- 01Don Quixote’s anxiety over his printed history
- 02Carrasco’s praise of the published chronicle
- 03Sancho’s role, the island, and the history’s faults
- 04Printed books, criticism, and authorial fault-finding
- 05Don Quixote and Sancho on the omissions in the history
- 06Sancho leaves for home and the conversation resumes
- 01Sancho explains the theft of Dapple
- 02Samson Carrasco questions the missing ass and the hundred crowns
- 01Sancho’s defense of his spending
- 02The promised second part of Don Quixote
- 03Sancho’s call for new adventures
- 04Don Quixote’s planned sally to Aragon
- 01Sancho's counsel on valour and retreat
- 02Sancho's hopes for an island or kingdom
- 03Honours and the danger of government
- 01Farewell verses for Dulcinea del Toboso
- 01Sancho’s return and plans for another sally
- 02Teresa’s objections to rank and marriage
- 03Sancho’s defense of social advancement
- 04Agreement over Sanchica’s future
- 01Housekeeper and niece try to stop Don Quixote
- 02Don Quixote defends knight-errantry and noble lineage
- 01Housekeeper warns Samson Carrasco of a third sally
- 01Sancho's request for fixed monthly wages
- 01Sancho’s wages and the island bargain
- 02Samson Carrasco’s persuasion
- 03Sancho’s renewed loyalty and the departure fixed
- 01Departure for El Toboso
- 01Don Quixote and Sancho set out for El Toboso
- 02Fame, envy, and Christian virtue
- 03Sancho’s case for sainthood
- 04Arrival at El Toboso
- 01Night arrival in El Toboso
- 01Sancho's denial of seeing Dulcinea
- 02The labourer and the search for Dulcinea's palace
- 01Sancho sent to El Toboso
- 02Don Quixote’s signs of Dulcinea’s feelings
- 01Sancho's private doubts and resolution
- 02The peasant girls as Dulcinea's apparition
- 01Sancho’s mistaken identification of the village girls
- 02Sancho’s kneeling address to Dulcinea
- 03Don Quixote’s bewildered silence
- 01Dulcinea’s mounted departure and Don Quixote’s lament
- 02Sancho’s defense of Dulcinea’s beauty and moles
- 03The jineta saddle and the road to Saragossa
- 01Don Quixote and Sancho on Dulcinea’s enchantment
- 02The cart of “The Cortés of Death” and the actors’ explanation
- 03Rocinante’s fright and Dapple’s escape
- 04Sancho restrains the attack on the players
- 01Don Quixote’s defense of the theater
- 02Sancho’s growing wit and proverbs
- 03Rocinante and Dapple’s friendship
- 01The Knight of the Grove's sonnet and lament
- 02Don Quixote's exchange with the Knight of the Grove
- 03Sancho and the squire's side conversation
- 01Conversation between the two squires
- 01Wine, provisions, and quitting adventures
- 01Casiledea de Vandalia and the knight's labors
- 01Don Quixote denies the victory
- 02The Knight of the Grove describes Don Quixote
- 03Enchantment and the duel’s conditions
- 01Sancho refuses the squire's duel
- 01Dawn before the duel
- 02The Knight of the Mirrors and his squire
- 03Terms of the combat and Sancho’s fear
- 01The knight of the Mirrors falls
- 02Samson Carrasco revealed
- 01Unmasking of Tom Cecial and Samson Carrasco
- 02Don Quixote's terms of victory
- 03Departure for Saragossa
- 01Samson Carrasco’s plan to curb Don Quixote
- 02Tom Cecial’s complaint and Samson’s revenge
- 01Don Quixote and Sancho debate the Knight of the Mirrors
- 02Don Quixote’s self-portrait as a knight-errant
- 03Don Diego de Miranda’s household and way of life
- 04Don Quixote on poetry and poets
- 05The covered cart with royal flags
- 01Sancho's curds in the helmet
- 02The caged lions and Don Quixote's challenge
- 03Don Quixote's challenge to the lion
- 04The keeper's account of the encounter
- 01Don Quixote renames himself Knight of the Lions
- 02Don Quixote’s defence of knight-errantry
- 03Arrival at Don Diego’s village
- 01Don Diego de Miranda’s house and reception
- 01Don Quixote's reception in the Green Gaban house
- 02Don Lorenzo's poetry and knight-errantry debate
- 01Don Lorenzo's gloss on Fortune and lost happiness
- 02Don Quixote's praise of Don Lorenzo's poetry
- 01Don Quixote’s praise of Lorenzo’s sonnet
- 02Don Quixote’s farewell and advice to Lorenzo
- 03Departure from Don Diego’s house
- 01Don Quixote meets the travelers
- 02Camacho the rich and Quiteria the fair
- 01Basilio and Quiteria’s childhood love
- 02Don Quixote and Sancho on marriage choice
- 03Basilio’s despair before the wedding
- 04Sancho and the licentiate dispute over language
- 01Corchuelo challenges the licentiate’s fencing skill
- 02Don Quixote judges the duel and Corchuelo’s defeat
- 03Sancho’s advice and the reconciliation
- 01Arrival at the wedding grounds
- 01Don Quixote and Sancho on the wedding morning
- 02Camacho's lavish wedding preparations
- 03Peasant processions and sword-dancers
- 01The speaking dance of Love and Interest
- 01Sancho’s preference for Camacho’s feast
- 02Sancho’s meditation on death and preaching
- 03Sancho’s defense of practical religion
- 01The bridal procession and Quiteria's appearance
- 02Basilio's dramatic interruption
- 01Basilio’s feigned suicide and plea for Quiteria
- 02Marriage blessing and the exposed trick
- 01Don Quixote halts the wedding quarrel
- 02Camacho accepts the outcome and the parties depart
- 01Don Quixote's counsel on marriage and honor
- 02The cousin's books and Sancho's riddles
- 03Journey to the Cave of Montesinos
- 04Descent into the Cave of Montesinos
- 05Don Quixote's awakening and first account
- 06The cave is no hell
- 01Don Quixote's descent and awakening in the cave
- 02Montesinos identifies himself and explains the enchanted castle
- 03Durandarte's tomb and the heart of the dead knight
- 01Durandarte’s last request and Montesinos’s reply
- 02Belerma’s procession and the comparison with Dulcinea
- 03Don Quixote’s account of time and enchantment
- 01Dulcinea's enchanted message and request for money
- 02Don Quixote's vow to disenchant Dulcinea
- 01Cide Hamete’s doubt about the cave episode
- 02The cousin’s remarks on Montesinos, Ruidera, and cards
- 01The hermitage and the inn
- 01The youth bound for the wars
- 01Don Quixote’s praise of arms and soldierly honor
- 02Arrival at the inn and search for the man with the lances
- 01The lost ass and the braying contest
- 01Master Pedro and the divining ape
- 02Don Quixote's doubts about the ape's divination
- 03The cave of Montesinos test and the puppet show setup
- 01Don Gaiferos’s rescue of Melisendra
- 01Master Pedro's puppet-show narration
- 02Don Quixote's attack on the puppet troop
- 01Don Quixote accepts responsibility for the damage
- 02Master Pedro and the arbitrators settle the figures
- 01Departure of the company from the inn
- 01Master Pedro and the divining ape
- 01Master Pedro and his ape
- 02The braying town's standard and Don Quixote's legal argument
- 03Sancho's bray and the skirmish
- 01Don Quixote's retreat from the townsfolk
- 02Sancho's bruises and Don Quixote's defense of retreat
- 01Sancho's complaints about bruises and hardships
- 02Sancho's wages and promised island government
- 01Sancho's wages and the island promise
- 02Don Quixote's rebuke and reconciliation
- 01Resting in the grove
- 02Resuming the journey toward the Ebro
- 01Don Quixote discovers the boat on the Ebro
- 02Embarking on the enchanted bark
- 01Sancho’s test and the river current
- 02The water mills mistaken for a castle
- 03The boat’s upset and payment for the bark
- 01Ending of the enchanted bark adventure
- 01The hawking party in the meadow
- 02The duchess welcomes Don Quixote and Sancho
- 03The duke’s invitation to the castle
- 01Arrival at the castle and ceremonial welcome
- 02Sancho’s quarrel with Doña Rodriguez over Dapple
- 01Don Quixote's dressing and Sancho's admonition
- 02Ceremonious escort to dinner
- 01Dinner at the ducal table
- 02Sancho's story about seats and precedence
- 01Sancho’s long-winded tale
- 02The duchess asks about Dulcinea
- 01The ecclesiastic's rebuke of Don Quixote
- 01Don Quixote’s defense of knighthood
- 02Sancho’s island and the ecclesiastic’s outrage
- 03Offence versus insult
- 01Don Quixote's defense of knight-errantry
- 02Sancho's comic reply
- 03The duchess's laughter
- 04The mock washing of Don Quixote
- 01Sancho’s beard washing and the duke’s joke
- 02Dulcinea’s beauty and enchantment
- 03Sancho’s fitness for government
- 01Sancho resists the beard washing
- 01The duchess praises Sancho’s courtesy
- 02Invitation to the cool chamber
- 03The duke renews knight-errant treatment
- 01Sancho’s explanation of Dulcinea’s supposed deception
- 01Sancho's account of Dulcinea's enchantment
- 02Sancho's defense of his loyalty and the island
- 03Doña Rodriguez and the ballad of King Rodrigo
- 01Sancho’s promised island and governing well
- 02Dulcinea’s enchantment and the cave of Montesinos
- 03Sancho’s reputation, drinking, and Dapple
- 01Sancho's defense of Dapple
- 02The duchess and duke plot a joke on Don Quixote
- 01The duke and duchess arrange the hunt
- 02Don Quixote, Sancho, and the boar hunt
- 01Sancho’s mishap in the boar hunt
- 02The duke’s defence of hunting
- 01Sancho on governors and proverbs
- 02The nocturnal pageant in the wood
- 01The devil’s warning about Dulcinea’s enchantment
- 02Nightfall, battle noises, and Sancho’s fainting
- 01The sages in the carts
- 01Merlin’s prophecy of Dulcinea’s disenchantment
- 02Sancho’s refusal and Don Quixote’s threat
- 01Sancho rejects the whipping demand
- 02Merlin and the duchess set the conditions
- 03Sancho accepts the penance
- 01Sancho’s penance and the duchess’s advice
- 02Sancho Panza’s letter to Teresa Panza
- 01Sancho's letter and the duchess's correction
- 02Trifaldin of the White Beard's embassy
- 03Don Quixote's defense of knight-errantry
- 01Sancho's objections to duennas
- 02The Distressed Duenna's entrance
- 01The Countess Trifaldi’s entrance
- 02Antonomasia and Don Clavijo’s courtship
- 01Queen Maguncia’s death and Malambruno’s enchantment
- 02The duennas’ bearded punishment
- 01Sancho’s protest and the duennas’ plea
- 02Clavileño the Swift and the journey to Kandy
- 03Sancho’s objections to the beard-removal adventure
- 01Clavileño arrives in the garden
- 02Sancho resists the aerial journey
- 03Don Quixote and Sancho mount Clavileño
- 04The staged flight through the air
- 05Clavileño's explosion and the adventure's conclusion
- 01Sancho's account of the flight on Clavileño
- 01Sancho's heavenly goats and the end of the adventure
- 01Sancho’s reluctance and the duke’s instructions
- 02Don Quixote’s counsel for governing
- 01Instructions for the adornment of thy mind
- 01Don Quixote’s practical counsels for Sancho’s government
- 01Cide Hamete’s complaint about the narrative
- 02Sancho’s departure for his government
- 03Don Quixote’s refusal of attendants
- 01Don Quixote’s torn stockings and poverty
- 02Altisidora’s serenade in the garden
- 03Don Quixote’s protest of fidelity to Dulcinea
- 01Sancho Panza's arrival at Barataria
- 02The ceremonial taking of possession
- 03The inscription and Sancho's illiteracy
- 01The dispute over ten gold-crowns
- 01Sancho discovers the hidden gold crowns
- 02The woman's accusation against the cattle dealer
- 01The cattle dealer’s purse dispute
- 02The tailor’s five caps
- 01Altisidora’s feigned swoon and the lute request
- 02Don Quixote’s ballad and the bell-and-cat prank
- 03Altisidora’s bedside reproach and recovery
- 01Sancho's royal dinner and the physician's interference
- 01The duke’s warning letter
- 01The farmer's petition for a marriage recommendation
- 02Sancho's outrage at the request for ducats
- 01Don Quixote’s fear of Altisidora’s visit
- 02Doña Rodriguez enters the chamber
- 03Don Quixote and the duenna’s exchange
- 01Don Quixote’s wary exchange with Doña Rodriguez
- 02Doña Rodriguez’s family background and widowhood
- 03Her daughter’s beauty and the farmer’s son
- 01Doña Rodriguez’s complaint about her daughter
- 02The duchess’s issues and Don Quixote’s credulity
- 03The nocturnal drubbing of Doña Rodriguez and Don Quixote
- 01Sancho’s supper and plain fare
- 02Night patrol and gambling quarrel
- 01The gambling-house dispute and sentence
- 01Sancho questions the young man
- 02The claim that prison cannot force sleep
- 01The disguised maiden's arrest and confession
- 02The brother's capture and the return home
- 01Doña Rodriguez's visit and the duchess's revenge
- 02The page's journey to Teresa Panza
- 01Teresa Panza greets the page and receives Sancho's letter
- 02The duchess's letter and gifts for Teresa and Sanchica
- 01Teresa Panza’s letters and coral beads
- 02The page explains Sancho’s governorship
- 01Sanchica’s wish to see her father in trunk-hose
- 02Teresa’s hopes for a coach and a county
- 03The Panzas’ gift for proverbs and Sancho’s government
- 01The page’s assurance about Sancho’s governorship
- 02Sanchica’s wish to visit her father
- 03Teresa’s reply letters written by the acolyte
- 01Sancho’s hungry morning audience
- 02The bridge-and-gallows legal case
- 03Sancho’s merciful ruling
- 01Don Quixote’s letter of advice to Sancho Panza
- 01Don Quixote’s counsel on gratitude and duty
- 02Sancho’s reply on hunger and governance
- 01Sancho’s letter to Don Quixote
- 02Sancho’s ordinances for the island
- 01Doña Rodriguez's plea for justice
- 02Don Quixote accepts the challenge
- 01Teresa Panza’s letter to the duchess
- 01Teresa Panza’s letter to Sancho Panza
- 01Sancho’s nighttime mock assault
- 02Sancho renounces the governorship
- 01Don Quixote awaits the duel
- 02Sancho meets Ricote the Morisco pilgrim
- 03Pilgrims’ roadside meal and wine
- 01Ricote’s exile after the edict
- 02Pilgrimage through Europe and plan to recover treasure
- 03Sancho’s refusal and Barataria joke
- 01Sancho’s view of government and honest gain
- 02Ricote’s daughter and the village farewell
- 01Sancho’s fall into the pit
- 02Sancho’s lament and escape through the cavern
- 01Sancho trapped in the pit
- 01Sancho’s rescue from the pit
- 02Sancho’s farewell account of Barataria
- 03The duke and duchess receive Sancho
- 01Preparation for the duel
- 02Tosilos enters the lists
- 01Tosilos refuses to fight and yields
- 02The trick is exposed and explained away
- 01Tosilos confined after the duel
- 02Doña Rodriguez's marriage outcome
- 01Don Quixote’s decision to leave the castle
- 02Sancho receives Teresa’s letters and reflects on his government
- 03The departure scene in the castle courtyard
- 01Altisidora’s love complaint
- 02Don Quixote’s denial and request to depart
- 01The duchess rebukes Altisidora
- 02Altisidora’s apology for the garters
- 03Don Quixote’s departure from the castle
- 01Images for the village retablo
- 02Omens, Saint James, and the nature of love
- 01Pastoral Arcadia in the meadows
- 02Don Quixote and Sancho recognized by the shepherdesses
- 03Invitation to remain and Don Quixote's refusal
- 01Don Quixote’s gratitude speech and highway challenge
- 02The bull drive overturns Don Quixote and Sancho
- 01Rest by the spring and Sancho's counsel
- 02Arrival at the inn and supper talk
- 01Sancho’s supper and the cow-heels
- 02Reading the false Second Part
- 03Don Quixote rebukes the impostor historian
- 01Dulcinea's enchantment and Montesinos cave
- 02Reactions to the new history of Don Quixote
- 01Refusal to enter Saragossa
- 02Barcelona as the new destination
- 03Farewell to Don Juan and Don Jeronimo
- 01Night in the oak thicket and Sancho's lashes
- 02Roque Guinart's band of freebooters
- 03Claudia Jeronima's pursuit of Don Vicente
- 04Claudia Jeronima’s fatal jealousy
- 05Roque Guinart’s equitable division of the spoils
- 06Roque’s reflections on his outlaw life
- 07The captains, pilgrims, and lady of Naples
- 08Roque’s punishment and letter to Barcelona
- 01Roque Guinart’s uneasy life and departure for Barcelona
- 02Barcelona’s dawn welcome and naval spectacle
- 03The city’s greeting and the boys’ prank
- 01Don Antonio’s playful hospitality
- 02Sancho’s eating habits and Barataria
- 03The bronze head’s secret powers
- 01Don Quixote's public promenade in city dress
- 02The placard and the passerby's rebuke
- 01The ladies’ dancing party
- 02The enchanted head’s answers
- 03The head’s hidden mechanism
- 01Visit to the printing office
- 02Translation of Le Bagatelle
- 03Don Quixote on printers and books
- 04The spurious Second Part of Don Quixote
- 01Sancho’s reception aboard the galleys
- 02Sancho’s fright and the galley drill
- 03Pursuit of the oared vessel
- 01Capture of the brigantine and Ana Felix's confession
- 02Ricote's reunion and the plan to rescue Don Gaspar Gregorio
- 01Ana Felix’s welcome and the plan to free Don Gregorio
- 02Don Quixote’s challenge to the Knight of the White Moon
- 03The joust, defeat, and year-long retirement
- 01Samson Carrasco Reveals His Identity
- 01Don Quixote’s defeat and Sancho’s consolation
- 02Don Gregorio’s return from Algiers
- 03Ricote’s plea against bribery and expulsion policy
- 01Don Antonio's arrangements for Gregorio, Ana Felix, and Ricote
- 02The parting and departure
- 01Don Quixote’s reflections on Fortune and his vow to keep his word
- 02Sancho’s judgment in the wager about equal weights
- 03Tosilos’s report and the roadside meal
- 01Don Quixote and Sancho debate Dulcinea, Altisidora, and Sancho’s whipping
- 02Plan to become shepherds in pastoral retirement
- 03Sancho’s doubts and the night’s poor supper
- 01Don Quixote urges Sancho to scourge himself
- 02Sancho refuses the whipping and praises sleep
- 01The pig drive in the night
- 01Don Quixote's madrigal and Sancho's sleep
- 02The silent armed escort to the duke's castle
- 01Arrival in the illuminated court and catafalque
- 02Altisidora’s funeral pageant and Minos’s decree
- 03Sancho’s punishment and Altisidora’s revival
- 04Altisidora’s thanks and the court’s dismissal
- 01Samson Carrasco’s renewed challenge
- 02The duke’s staged deception of Don Quixote
- 01Altisidora’s complaint and vision of hell
- 02Devils’ tennis game and the false sequel
- 01Don Quixote rejects Altisidora's love
- 02The musician defends poetic licence
- 03Departure from the duke and duchess's palace
- 01Sancho negotiates payment for the lashes
- 02The nighttime whipping attempt
- 03Arrival at the village hostelry and painted scenes
- 04Don Quixote and Sancho on painters and proverbs
- 01Don Álvaro Tarfe arrives at the inn
- 02The two Don Quixotes and two Sanchos
- 01Don Álvaro Tarfe’s declaration before the alcalde
- 02Departure from the village and Sancho’s penance
- 03Return to the village and pastoral plans
- 01Omens at the village entrance
- 02Return to the village and Sancho's homecoming
- 03Don Quixote's shepherd plan
- 04Niece and housekeeper urge him to stay home
- 01Don Quixote’s illness and first recovery of reason
- 02Confession and the making of his will
- 03Death, epitaph, and Cide Hamete’s farewell
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