Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter
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A significant reassessment of current assumptions about eighteenth-century literature and art.
Seldom has a single book, much less a translation, so deeply affected English literature as the translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote in 1612. The comic novel inspired drawings, plays, sermons, and other translations, making the name of the Knight of la Mancha as familiar as any folk character in English lore.
In this comprehensive study of the reception and conversion of Don Quixote in England, Ron...






















