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Alonso Quijano (or Quesada, or Quijada), who calls himself Don Quixote (can be modernized as Quijote), a Spanish gentleman and hidalgo of La Mancha, who believes himself to be, and acts as befitting, a knight-errant as described in various medieval books of chivalry, which he reads avidly until he goes insane.
Sancho Panza (/ ˈ p æ n z ə /; Spanish: [ˈsantʃo ˈpanθa]) is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. . Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs, and eart
The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda is a 1990 animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera with the Italian public service broadcaster RAI. The series is loosely based on the characters Don Quixote and Sancho Panza from the 17th century novel by Cervantes .
The second verse reels off "dear old Lenny", that is, the stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce; "the Great Elmyra", identified by Cornwell as painter and art forger Elmyr de Hory; [6] and the fictional character Sancho Panza from the novel Don Quixote. [7] The playwright William Shakespeare and the Roman emperor Nero complete the list.
Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion.The musical was suggested by the classic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play I, Don Quixote, which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with ...
He was a wealthy (rico meaning "rich" unloved Spanish) Morisco shopkeeper and old friend of Sancho Panza, who was banned from Spain in 1609 like all Moriscos. The expulsion of the Moriscos was a highly topical issue at the time when Don Quixote was written—occurring in between the publication of the first part (1605) and the second one (1615).
A Thai court jailed a famous Spanish actor's son for life for the grisly murder of a Colombian plastic surgeon on a tropical holiday island in a lurid case that has gripped Spain.
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes is a Spanish prime-time television series based on the 17th century novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.Produced by Emiliano Piedra for Televisión Española, it was directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, with screenplay by Camilo José Cela and starring Fernando Rey as Don Quixote and Alfredo Landa as Sancho Panza.