Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
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Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039024
- info:lc/authorities/sh85039024
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85039024#concept
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Variants
- Alonso Quijano (Fictitious character)
- Alonso Quixano (Fictitious character)
- De la Mancha, Don Quijote (Fictitious character)
- Don Quijote de la Mancha (Fictitious character)
- La Mancha, Don Quijote de (Fictitious character)
- Mancha, Don Quijote de la (Fictitious character)
- Quijano, Alonso (Fictitious character)
- Quijote de la Mancha, Don (Fictitious character)
- Quijote, Don (Fictitious character)
- Quixano, Alonso (Fictitious character)
- Quixote, Don
Earlier Established Forms
- Quixote, Don
Sources
- found: Wikipedia, Mar. 1, 2010 (Don Quixote (Spanish: Don Quijote) title: The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha); a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; pub. in 1605. In the novel Alonso Quixano (Spanish: Alonso Quijano), a retired country gentleman becomes obsessed with books of chivalry; he dons an old suit of armor and renames himself "Don Quixote de la Mancha")
- found: Enc. Britannica online. Mar. 1, 2010 (Don Quixote (fictional character) also spelled Don Quijote; 17th-century Spanish literary character, the protagonist of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The book, orig. pub. 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. Plot: an aging minor nobleman named Alonso Quixano, enamoured by chivalric romances, christening himself "Don Quixote" sets out from his home village of La Mancha on a quest for adventure)
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2011-02-11: revised
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