History Literature / DonQuixote

Cervantes had promised a sequel at the end of Volume I and had begun writing it when he caught word of a spurious fake sequel to ''Don Quixote'', written by an unknown writer with the pseudonym Avellaneda as a cash grab. This caused him to denounce the book in his own pages (somewhat ironically, this is the main reason anyone even remembers the imitator at all today) and motivated him to put out Vol II, the hidalgo's final adventure. The second part has a more serious tone, taking advantage of the change brought about by the first part of the book in RealLife, where Don Quixote has evolved from a LordErrorProne to an honest (but still insane) man whose noble attitude and delusions makes him the ButtMonkey of a lot of people. Don Quixote has to confront his delusions (but only in the very last chapter), and the harshness of reality makes him realize that his naïve dreams were shallow, which brings him back to sanity before his death.

** The nature of reality and fiction get tackled even further in the Puppet Theatre episode of Part II. Don Quixote criticizes a puppet theatre's poor staging of an event in the Crusades and keeps heckling it/stage directing to make it real. Don Quixote's constant needling and addition of details ultimately culminates in a staging so realistic that Don Quixote goes nuts and charges in and fights the puppets himself, completely falling in with the fiction he created. Likewise Don Quixote, while an annoying madman in the first book, in the sequel discovers that he's actually become a LivingLegend, with fan authors writing spurious legends of his life while Cide Hamete Benengeli is accurate, but denies him royalties. In other words, Don Quixote somehow managed to become a real-life legendary hero with many alternate versions and apocrypha of his adventures spreading around.

** PlayedForDrama when Dorothea recounts how she agreed to sleep with Don Fernando, son of the Duke, under a promise of marriage, she was constantly MovingTheGoalposts. In retrospect, Dorothea realizes that when Don Fernando answered “yes” to all her demands, [[TheCakeIsALie that was the proof that he would fulfill none of them]].

->"In a place in La Mancha, the name of which I don't want to recall, there lived, not long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance on the rack, an old shield, a worn-out horse, and a racing greyhound."

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[[folder: Some Adaptations]]

[[AC: Anime and Manga]]

* ''Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha'' (1980)
* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' (2001) - The Episode "One Crazy Knight" (EN) / "Overkill Knight! Sir Gallant" (JP) features a character named "Sir Gallant" (EN) / "Kihāno" (JP) who is heavily inspired by Don Quixote. His Japanese named is properly translated to "Quixano", a delusional knight who believes he is a hero depicted in comic books (which he believes are fact). He also ends up fighting an evil sapient windmill named Windwhipper.

[[AC: Comic Books]]

* ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'', 1972-83, Spanish, ten volumes. English translation by Wise Path Books in progress (digital version [[https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/comedy/don-quixote here]]).

[[AC: Film]]

* ''Don Quixote'', 1933 German film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
* ''Don Quixote'', 1957 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev.
* ''Don Quixote'' (1957-1969), unfinished film by Creator/OrsonWelles.
* ''Man of La Mancha'', 1972 film adaptation of the musical by Arthur Hiller.
* ''Don Quixote'' 2000 Hallmark television movie starring John Lithgow and Bob Hoskins as the knight and his squire.
* ''Don Quixote'', 2010 Chinese/Hong Kong film directed by Ah Gan.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'', 2018 co-production film directed by Creator/TerryGilliam. Not an adaptation of the story, but uses the character and delusion themes in a 21st century setting.
** ''Film/LostInLaMancha'', documentary about the above film's [[invoked]][[TroubledProduction notoriously plagued]] making.

[[AC: Literature]]

* ''Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha'' ("Second volume of the ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), better known as "Avellaneda's Quixote", is a 1614 [[FanFic unauthorized sequel]] written by "Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda", a pen name of [[RiddleForTheAges unknown identity]] believed to have been a personal enemy of Cervantes, as he [[HateFic insults him]] in the book. Cervantes was so incensed with this book's existence that he wrote the official ''Part II'' to prevent it from becoming popular - and succeeded, to the point people [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece only know of it today]] because it is disparaged in Cervantes's book.
* ''Moxia Zhuan'' ("The story of the Enchanted Knight"), the first version of ''Don Quixote'' published in China, is a 1922 [[ForeignRemake remake]] of Part I by Lin Shu, who didn't speak Spanish or any western language, but transcribed the story as it was narrated to him by a friend reading from an English 18th century translation. The story is slightly different due to a mix of [[BlindIdiotTranslation translation errors]], [[GossipEvolution broken telephone]], CulturalTranslation, and AuthorAppeal: Don Quixote is a more dignified character ''because'' he keeps true to older traditions and rejects the absurdities of modernity; Sancho is his disciple instead of his servant; and all references to Christianity are excised, so the curate is a doctor. It went [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes out of print]] in 1934 until it was rediscovered by the Cervantes Institute and published in Mandarin and Spanish in 2021.
* ''Monsignor Quixote'' (1982) by Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor is a {{pastiche}} that follows a priest who thinks he is a direct descendant of Don Quixote despite everyone else pointing that Don Quixote is fictional, as he rides an old Seat 600 through post-Franco Spain while in the company of a former Communist mayor (nicknamed Sancho, of course). Had a TV film adaptation starring Creator/AlecGuinness in 1985.
* ''Quichotte'', a 2019 novel by Creator/SalmanRushdie that reimagines Don Quixote as an elderly [[LocalReference Indian-American]] salesman who becomes infatuated with a TalkShow host and decides to reach her while accompanied by his [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary son]] Sancho.

[[AC: Theatre]]

* ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'', a musical created in 1964 about a fictionalized making of ''Don Quixote'', which is treated as the ShowWithinAShow.
* Quixote Nuevo - A modern adaptation starring Emilio Delgado in 2020, adapting the story onto modern problems in the Texas/Mexican border. In this version, "Joe" is explicitly suffering from late stage dementia, and El Muerte is a prominent character throughout.

[[AC: Web Original]]

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4028 SCP-4028]]

[[AC: Western Animation]]

* ''Don Quijote de la Mancha'', 1979-1980 Spanish series directed by Cruz Delgado and José Romagosa.
* ''Donkey Xote'', 2007 Spanish CGI animated film, notable for starring a donkey that looks ''far'' too similar to the one from ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'', and [[TheMockbuster as a result being repackaged as "Donkey X" at least once to raise the confusion]].
* ''Las aventuras de Don Quijote'' (''The Adventures of Don Quixote''), 2010 Spanish CGI animated film.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfDonCoyoteAndSanchoPanda'', 1990-1991 Hanna-Barbera animated series.
** A different Don Coyote turns up in a ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode around the same season. This version enlists Penfold as his Sancho Panza as they tilt at a windmill where Baron Greenback is holed up.

[[AC: Video Games]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperDonQuixote'' (1984)
* As a part of the Literature theme of its twelve protagonists, ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'' uses a genderbent Don Quixote as its Spanish representative.
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** Parodied in Chapter LVIII of the Second Part: Don Quixote meets some beautiful shepherdesses who are part of a crew of noble and rich people who invoke this trope by retiring to a forest to play at being shepherds and shepherdesses. They are so sophisticated that they have studied two poems from Garcilaso (in Spanish) and Camoes (in Portuguese). [[{{Irony}} Only the truly rich city mouse can afford to live in a happy Arcadia]].

** The 2007 computer-animated film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Xote Donkey Xote]]'' is an InNameOnly adaptation told from the point of view of Sancho Panza's donkey Rucio, best known for how it blatantly rips off ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': The donkey is clearly modeled after ''Shrek''[='s=] Donkey, and the advertising even presented it as "From producers '''''who saw''' Shrek''."

The story is that of an old ''hidalgo'' named Alonso Quijano, who is so obsessed with chivalric novels that he's lost a few screws and decided that he is a vagrant knight. Quijano renames himself as "Don Quixote de La Mancha" and decides to win eternal fame through the besting of criminals and general upholding of the Chivalric Code. Unfortunately for a lot of innocent people, his delusions make him pick fights with innocent bystanders, some of whom do not fight back because Don Quixote is obviously crazy. Of course, there are also strangers who are not so sympathetic. After one delivers a brutal beating to Don Quixote, a neighbor from his village meets the wounded Don Quixote and takes him home, where his friends and family burn the cursed books of chivalry and claim that AWizardDidIt (literally) to try to cure him. However, he soon returns to his delusion and journey. This time he manages to convince a simple farm-hand, Sancho Panza, to become his squire and sidekick for the promise of a governorship in the future. They experience many adventures, including the famous one where Don Quixote attacks some windmills thinking they are ferocious giants. [[note]]The band Music/TheyMightBeGiants was named after the film ''Film/TheyMightBeGiants'', which paralleled ''Don Quixote'' with the main character's delusions that he is Literature/SherlockHolmes. [[/note]] At the end of the book, Don Quixote's friends trick him by making him believe he is enchanted and take him back to his village.

The first part of the novel was published in 1605, when stories of chivalry were pushing CondemnedByHistory and Don Quixote's dreams of reviving chivalric ways were really a strange, misbegotten idea. However, Miguel de Cervantes had a clear distaste for them, in no small part because he was an ex-soldier who lost the mobility of his left arm in the UsefulNotes/BattleOfLepanto[[note]]Cervantes was famously nicknamed "The One-Armed of Lepanto", or "el Manco de Lepanto"[[/note]] and spent several years in prison. Having had such harsh experiences, [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids he found such idealistic stories completely absurd]], and thought that they were too disconnected from reality. And out of such distaste, he decided to write this story [[DeconstructiveParody to pick them apart and openly mock them]].

* ''Quichotte'', a 2019 novel by Creator/SalmanRushdie that reimagines Don Quixote as an old [[LocalReference Indian-American]] salesman who becomes infatuated with a TalkShow host and decides to reach her while accompanied by his [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary son]] Sancho.