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26 unusual facts about Don Quixote


A Place Called Chiapas

A month later, among three thousand people, she watches the horse-mounted Subcomandante Marcos appear from the jungle, holding a flagpole bearing a small red flag, he was "Reminiscent of the hapless Don Quixote — the fictional Spanish knight who fights for impossible dreams, and can't distinguish reality from what's inside his head".

Alcalá de Ebro

According to Jan Morris ("Spain", p. 33), Alcalá del Ebro is the fictional Isla Barataria which Sancho Panza ruled in Don Quixote.

Andrew Butler

Sumner likened Butler to Don Quixote and said Butler: "has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight. I mean the harlot, Slavery."

Argamasilla de Alba

Cervantes was held prisoner here and refers to the place in the prologue to Don Quixote.

At Last, Okemah!

At Last, Okemah! is a comedic retelling of Don Quixote featuring Jeff-nominated actor Kevin Viol in the lead role of Winston Thomas, a former hipster who becomes the self-styled greatest, most authentic folk singer of all time.

CBS Television Workshop

The first episode, which premiered on January 13, 1952, is a dramatized 30 minute version of Don Quixote starring Boris Karloff and directed by Sidney Lumet.

Colonia Peralvillo

One writer, Gonzalo Peredo Goméz states that the name comes from a passage in the work Don Quixote, but spelled “Perabillo,” which referred to a place in La Mancha.

Consuegra

Most Spanish windmills, like those described in Cervantes's Don Quixote, can be found in the province of Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain.

El Provencio

It has kept much of its medieval heritage and is on the newly planted trail that marks the route followed by the character Don Quixote in the Cervantes novel by the same name.

Filleau des Billettes

His brother, François Filleau de St Martin, was famous for making the first French translation of Don Quixote.

Herbert John Clifford Grierson

Don Quixote: Some War-time Reflections on Its Character and Influence (1921) pamphlet

Inna Zubkovskaya

She danced many major roles of the classical repertory, including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Nikiya in La Bayadere, Kitri in Don Quixote, the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and the title role of La Esmeralda.

Julia Goldani Telles

She appeared in numerous ballet performances including Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Don Quixote and Swan Lake.

Keisuke Serizawa

Serizawa has also produced numerous masterpieces in illustrated books including Don Quixote, Vincent van Gogh and A Day at Mashiko.

Kissing a Fool

Its plot is inspired by the short story "El curioso impertinente" that appears in Don Quixote.

Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex

The Turkish researcher Rasih Nuri İleri claimed during his examination of the complex's foundation documents that Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes was a forced worker at the construction of the complex during his enslavement, like the Captive character in his novel Don Quixote.

La Barceloneta, Barcelona

La Barceloneta is known for its sandy beach (which made an appearance in Don Quixote, book 2) and its many restaurants and nightclubs along the boardwalk.

Maarten Krabbé

In the war years of 1940 -1945, the now famous series of etchings was created on the subject of Cervantes'sDon Quixote.

Manchego

Cheeses that meet the DO requirements carry a casein tab that is applied when the cheese is in the mould and bear a distinctive label that is issued by the Manchego Cheese Denomination of Origin Regulating Council; this carries the legend Queso Manchego, a serial number, and artwork depicting Don Quixote de La Mancha.

Molinux

Each version of Molinux is named for a character from the great Spanish novel Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

Patrick van Deurzen

Deurzen also often adds text that the musicians should recite to add a different level of meaning to the composition, as in his quintet Choral, Prelude & Fugue(2005) where each part contains texts of Don Quixote.

Quichotte

Don Quixote - novel written by 17th Century Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Quixotism

Quixotism as a term or a quality appeared after the publication of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha in 1605.

Rocinate

Based on the artwork on the album cover, it appears that the title is a misspelling of the name Rocinante - the horse from Don Quixote.

Spanish Navy Marines

The most famous Spanish marine is without a doubt Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the novel Don Quixote, who was wounded in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

The Mexican Dream

The film stars Jesús Chuy Pérez as Ajileo Barajas, an illegal alien who in many ways represents a modern Don Quixote in pursuit of becoming a movie star.


Anna Antonicheva

In 1999 she went on a tour to Kyrgyzstan where she played in Don Quixote with Dmitry Belogolovtsev, and in 2000 she traveled to Japan where she appeared in a play called La Bayadire at the New National Theatre Tokyo with Carlos Acosta and Asami Maki as main partners.

Burbank Films Australia

In the years that followed, until 1988, Burbank adapted the works of many other well-known authors and legends, including Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers among many others.

Janowski Don Kichot

The Janowski J1 Prząśniczka ("Distaff"), later named the Don Kichot ("Don Quixote") was an ultralight aircraft designed in Poland and marketed for homebuilding in the 1970s.

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

After the reinstitution of prior censorship of caricature in 1835, Grandville turned almost exclusively to book illustration, supplying illustrations for various standard works, such as the songs of Béranger, the fables of La Fontaine, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe.

Juan Huarte de San Juan

His influence can be seen (though not always cited) in the work of Miguel de Cervantes (whose Don Quixote was inspired by him), Francis Bacon, Pierre Charron, Immanuel Kant, Noam Chomsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Hume, Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Francisco de Quevedo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jakob Thomasius, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

Kristina Kretova

She was a graduate of the Moscow State Choreographic Academy in 2002 and after it joined the Kremlin Ballet Theater where she plays such roles as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Kitri in Don Quixote, Marie in the Nutcracker, and Emmy Lawrence in Tom Sawyer.

Leo Allen

Halfway into that endeavor, he cited as favorites The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Don Quixote by Cervantes and anything by Octavia Butler.

Louisville Ballet

The Ballet also presents several full length ballets each year including Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Giselle and Don Quixote.

Martin Yates

His orchestration for the Kenneth MacMillan Ballet Manon was made for the Royal Ballet in 2011 and is now used throughout the world and his orchestration of the Carlos Acosta Ballet Don Quixote was made for the Royal Ballet and premiered in September 2013.

Ninel Kurgapkina

She graduated her ballet school and joined the Kirov Ballet in 1947, where she danced such roles as Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Myrtha (Giselle), Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), Kitri (Don Quixote) and Parasha (The Bronze Horseman).

Numantia

Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote) wrote a play about the siege, El cerco de Numancia, which stands today as his best-known dramatic work.

Paul Schoeffler

He has also acted on stages such as Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre, portraying characters such as Don Quixote from Man of La Mancha, Javert from Les Mis, and Captain Hook from Peter Pan; and Sweet Charity among others.

Ray John de Aragon

It was through her that he was exposed to tales of knight errantry like Don Quixote, Amadis de Gaula, and El Cid.

Simon Ball

His repertoire includes Prince in The Sleeping Beauty, the slave in Le Corsaire, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the prince in Cinderella, Albrecht in Giselle, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Basilio in Don Quixote, Siegfried in Swan Lake, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Vershinin in Winter Dreams, and Ivan in The Firebird.

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon

The story of Sir Nobonk is a generic parody of Medieval-type stories about knights and dragons (similar to Don Quixote or the much-later Shrek), set within a Medieval world with modern anachronisms for comic purposes (such as garden hoses for knights to wash out their armour).

Sonia Rodriguez

Rodriguez became a principal dancer in 2000 and in 2005, Suzanne Farrell chose her to dance the lead role of Dulcinea in the world premiere of her re-staging of George Balanchine's Don Quixote at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Summer/Fever

The recording of the album took place in London, England, at Strongroom Recording Studio, and the songs, mostly written by Sodagreen's lead singer Wu Tsing-Fong, contain Britpop elements and lyrical references to the supernatural, Faust, Madame Butterfly, Don Quixote and the Greek god Dionysus, the subject of three brief prose passages between tracks, written in English by band manager Will Lin and recited by studio engineer Dan McKinna.

The Adventures of Roderick Random

In the preface, Smollett acknowledges the connections of his novel to the two satirical picaresque works he translated into English: CervantesDon Quixote (1605–15) and Alain-René Lesage’s Gil Blas (1715–47)

The Inchcape Rock

In his 1947 English translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, J. M. Cohen refers to "The Inchcape Rock" as having a style he wishes to avoid in his rendering of the ballads by Cervantes.

Thomas Southerne

His other plays are: The Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion (1684), founded in part on the Curioso Imperlinente in Don Quixote; The Wives Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves (1692); The Maids Last Prayer; or Any rather than fail (1692); The Fate of Capua (1700); The Spartan Dame (1719), taken from Plutarch's Life of Aegis; and Money the Mistress (1729).

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Steinbeck tells of traveling throughout the United States in a specially made camper he named Rocinante, named after Don Quixote's horse.

Vienna State Ballet

There were also revivals of The Sleeping Beauty in the version by Peter Wright; Anna Karenina by Boris Eifman; Don Quixote by Rudolf Nureyev; choreography by Balanchine, Robbins, Neumeier, Tharp, and Forsythe; a Nureyev Gala; and the repertoire pieces Le Concours by Maurice Béjart and Marie Antoinette by Patrick de Bana.

Violetta Elvin

Elvin was only 20 when she had already danced the leads in Swan Lake, Marius Petipa's Don Quixote and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai with the State Ballet of Tashkent.

Vladislav Lantratov

In 2011 he also player a role in Lucien an adaptation of Illusions perdues and a Basilio a Don Quixote adaptation.

West Yorkshire Playhouse

A typical recent season (Autumn-Winter 2007) included: Casanova by Carol Ann Duffy and Told By An Idiot, with Lyric Hammersmith; a stage adaptation of Don Quixote; Brief Encounter with Kneehigh Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Rough Crossings adapted by Caryl Phillips from Simon Schama's book; Salonika, first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1982.