All 3 Uses of
Don Quixote de la Mancha
in
Man And Superman
- When his swagger is exhausted he drivels into erotic poetry or sentimental uxoriousness; and the Tennysonian King Arthur posing as Guinevere becomes Don Quixote grovelling before Dulcinea.†
Chpt Ded.
- That is the only prosperity you see on the stage, where the workers are all footmen, parlourmaids, comic lodging-letters and fashionable professional men, whilst the heroes and heroines are miraculously provided with unlimited dividends, and eat gratuitously, like the knights in Don Quixote's books of chivalry.†
Chpt Ded.
- They are often saner and shrewder than the philosophers just as Sancho-Panza was often saner and shrewder than Don Quixote.†
Chpt Ded. *
Definition:
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(Don Quixote de la Mancha) comedic book written by Spaniard, Miguel de Cervantes which satirizes chivalry; some think the finest book written in Spanish and certainly one that influenced literature that followed (1605)