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Whatever else Don Quixote may be, I never found it boring. Parts of it were very funny, others had wonderful similarities with Shakespeare, some bits were more serious: it's like a mini library in a single volume. Wonderful.
Overall, it has quite a Shakespearean feel - more in the plotting and tales within tales (eg The Man Who was Recklessly Curious, stolen by Mozart for Cosi fan Tutte) than the language. In fact, the story of Cardenio is thought to be the basis for Shakespeare's lost play of t ...more
Overall, it has quite a Shakespearean feel - more in the plotting and tales within tales (eg The Man Who was Recklessly Curious, stolen by Mozart for Cosi fan Tutte) than the language. In fact, the story of Cardenio is thought to be the basis for Shakespeare's lost play of t ...more
I try to read several classics each year. Don Quixote was one of the classics at the top of my list that I put of reading just because of the number of pages in the book. I finally decided to listen to the audio version of the unabridged book.
Cervantes masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Quixote, who fancies himself to be a knight-errant after reading too many tales of chivalric knights, and his faithful squire Sancho Panza. The book is about the many imagined and real escapades the two ...more
Cervantes masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Quixote, who fancies himself to be a knight-errant after reading too many tales of chivalric knights, and his faithful squire Sancho Panza. The book is about the many imagined and real escapades the two ...more
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I have done the opera, but never read the book.
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