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Don Quixote 7: Armies of sheep and spectres of the night
In the previous episode, Don Quixote, his horse Rocinante, and Sancho Panza had been left battered and bruised after being beaten by muleteers. They made their way to an inn, which the knight believed...
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Don Quixote 8: The cloth mill and Mambrino’s helmet
In the previous episode, Don Quixote mistook driven flocks of sheep as armies about to join in battle. When he killed those sheep with his lance he was injured by the retaliating drovers, who knocked...
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Don Quixote 9: The chain gang and the dead mule
In the previous episode, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza spent the night building their courage to investigate fearsome noises which turned out to be a waterfall and cloth mill. As they came away from...
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Don Quixote 10: Madness in the mountains
In the previous episode, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza freed a dozen convicts who were being marched to crew the King’s galleys, but the convicts turned on the pair and bombarded them with rocks before...
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Don Quixote 11: Rescue party
In the previous episode, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza and the goatherd listened to the story told by the young nobleman, Cardenio, explaining how he’d come to be making penance in the mountains. When he...
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Don Quixote 12: A quest for a princess
In the previous episode, Sancho Panza had set off for his home village to deliver a letter from Don Quixote to the Lady Dulcinea, and to obtain three donkeys as replacements for his own which had been...
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Don Quixote 13: The wronging of rights
In the previous episode, the mission to rescue Don Quixote from the mountains, consisting of Sancho Panza, the priest and the barber, had almost reached him, and met up with Cardenio, the distressed...
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Don Quixote 14: Testing a virtuous wife
In the previous episode, the group escorting Don Quixote from the mountains had been steadily descending as the knight and his squire repeatedly argued. Dorotea, pretending to be the Princess...
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Don Quixote 15: Slaying the giant
In the previous episode, the group escorting Don Quixote back to his village had reached the inn where Sancho Panza had been tossed high in the air. Don Quixote went straight to bed, and while he was...
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Don Quixote 16: Quest for a giant abandoned
In the previous episode, the priest continued to read The Tale of Inappropriate Curiosity to the group at the inn, while Don Quixote was asleep upstairs. In that story, Anselmo’s wife Camila was...
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Don Quixote 17: The captive’s tale
In the previous episode, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were still at the roadside inn when there arrived four masked horsemen escorting a woman, also with her face covered. It transpired that the woman...
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Don Quixote 18: Escape and reunion
In the previous episode, the group at the inn listened to the man from Algiers tell his life story, which started when he was given his inheritance, became a soldier and rose to the rank of captain. He...
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Don Quixote 19: The footman and the judge’s daughter
In the previous episode, the group at the inn heard the conclusion of the account by the former captive in Algiers of his escape with the beautiful young Moorish woman Zoraida. Once he’d explained how...
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Don Quixote 20: Attempted arrest and imprisonment
In the previous episode, those staying at the inn had been awoken by the singing of one of the judge’s footmen Luis, who was in love with the judge’s young daughter Clara. The innkeeper’s daughter and...
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Don Quixote 21: Spellbound
In the previous episode the inn had been in chaos for much of the day. This had only worsened since the arrival of three Officers of the Holy Brotherhood, who initially intervened in the dispute over...
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Don Quixote 22: Madness confirmed
In the previous episode, Don Quixote had been carried away from the inn, in a cage on the back of an ox cart. To maintain the deception of enchantment by which that had been accomplished, the priest...
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Don Quixote 23: Fighting a goatherd and penitents
In the previous episode, Don Quixote was being held captive in a cage on the back of an ox cart while he was taken back to his village for treatment of his madness. The group accompanying him, now with...
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Don Quixote: Book 1 summary and contents 1
This is the first of two articles which provide a table of contents, summary and selected paintings for the first book of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Cervantes takes us to a village in La Mancha,...
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Francisco Goya: 10 The story of Friar Pedro
In the early years of the nineteenth century, Francisco Goya (1746–1828) was fully occupied painting portraits, mainly of the royal family, members of court, and the nobility. Francisco Goya...
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Don Quixote: Book 1 summary and contents 2
This is the second of two articles which provide a table of contents, summary and selected paintings for the first book of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The group escorting Don Quixote from the...
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