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I found your article to be incredibly depressing. My mother read me “Don Quixote” as a child. As a Spanish literature major I have had the opportunity to study it in great detail. While I realize I am ...
This year’s story ballet is “Don Quixote,” the classic Russian ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus in 1869.
Today, Latino marriage equality and immigration reform activists can find solidarity in Cervantes' Don Quixote through the universality of love. The idea that life is a quest is not new, but the ...
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Ilan Stavans about his book, Quixote: The Novel and the World. Stavans was inspired by the Miguel de Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote, which turns 400 this year.
Now seemed a perfect time to flee into "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. Alas, a vexing present will sneak up where least expected.
A synopsis of ‘Don Quixote’ Jules Massenet’s opera premiered in 1910 in Monte Carlo. It’s not a straight retelling of Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”; Massenet was inspired by a French play ...
Dulcinea del Toboso: Dulcinea is the lady love whom Don Quixote idealizes and serves as his inspiration for chivalrous deeds. In reality, she is a simple peasant woman named Aldonza Lorenzo.
"Since I'm mad, I can believe anything." So says underground novelist Kathy Acker's modern-day Don Quixote, a young woman who departs upon a very vivid albeit imaginary journey into people and ...
“Don Quixote” is a ballet filled with fiery passion and more than a little slapstick humor. Don’t look for logic. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Terry Gilliam on why he never gave up on making 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and what reasonable people said to try to talk him out of it.