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  2. Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    In Don Quixote, there are basically two different types of Castilian: Old Castilian is spoken only by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a contemporary (late 16th century) version of Spanish. The Old Castilian of Don Quixote is a humoristic resource—he copies the language spoken in the chivalric books that made him mad; and many ...

  3. List of Don Quixote characters - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote's housekeeper, who carries out the book-burning with alacrity and relish. The innkeeper who puts Don Quixote up for the night and agrees to dub him a "knight," partly in jest and partly to get Don Quixote out of his inn more quickly, only for Don Quixote to return later, with a large number of people in tow.

  4. Alonso Quijano - Wikipedia

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    Alonso Quijano (Spanish: [aˈlonso kiˈxano]; spelled Quixano in English and in the Spanish of Cervantes' day, pronounced [aˈlons̺o kiˈʃano]), more commonly known by his pseudonym Don Quixote, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.

  5. Spanish chivalry - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote, his horse Rocinante and his squire Sancho Panza after an unsuccessful attack on a windmill. By Gustave Doré. Don Quixote is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon.

  6. Amadís de Gaula - Wikipedia

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    Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote as a burlesque attack on the resulting genre. Cervantes and his protagonist Quixote, however, keep the original Amadís in very high esteem. [8] The Spanish volumes, with their authors and the names of their main characters: Books I–IV: 1508 (Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo): Amadís de Gaula

  7. Name of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    There is a comic scene based on the play on words Castilian/castellan in the novel Don Quixote (Chapter 2). The region was thus named because it was a frontier land controlled from a series of fortified castles. It shared borders with rival Moorish Iberia (to the south) and the Christian kingdoms of Leon (to the west) and Navarre and Aragon (to ...

  8. Seguidilla - Wikipedia

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    Seguidilla dancing, 18th century. The seguidilla (/ ˌ s ɛ ɡ ə ˈ d iː (l) j ə,-ɡ ɪ-, ˌ s eɪ-/; Spanish: [seɣiˈðiʎa]; plural in both English and Spanish seguidillas; diminutive of seguida, which means "sequence" and is the name of a dance) [1] [2] [3] is an old Castilian folksong and dance form in quick triple time for two people with many regional variations.

  9. Belianís de Grecia - Wikipedia

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    Deteriorated design: early 18th-century chapbook edition of The Honour of Chivalry, first published in English in 1598.. Belianís of Greece is the eponymous hero of a Spanish chivalric romance novel, The honour of chivalry, [1] following in the footsteps of the influential Amadis de Gaula.

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