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Don Quixote de la Mancha : Finding Books

This guide provides selected resources for the study of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedro and his novel, Don Quixote

 

  

Edición anotada por Nicolás Díaz de Benjumea e ilustrada por Richardo Balaca.  1879

 

Title page of first edition (1605)

 Affiche anglaise pour le Théâtre Lyceum, "Don Quixote".

Don Quixote.  Illustrated by Salvador Dalí.

 

Finding Books

España

Subject Headings

Search the SUBJECT HEADINGS field in the online catalog by using the following terms:

By Country and Period:

  • Spanish literature--1500-1700--History and criticism
  • Spain--History--16th century--sources
  • Spanish literature--Classic period, 1500-1700
  • Catalan literature--History and Criticism

Individual author's name:

  • Ruíz, Juan
  • Mena, Juan de
  • Alfonso X

 Historical figures or Fictitious Character:

  • Don Quixote
  • Cid
  • Isabella I, Queen of Spain

By Individual Literary Work:

  • Cantar de Mio Cid
  • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote

Genre:

  • Motion pictures--Spain
  • Spanish poetry--To 1500
  • Painting, Spanish
  • Romances, Spanish--History and criticism
  • Theater--Spain
  • Picaresque literature  

Thematic:

  • Courtly love in literature
  • Muslims in literature
  • Women in literature

By Literary Movement:

  • Baroque--Spain

Background information:

  • Spain--Social Life and Customs
  • Spain--Civilization
  • Spain--Intellectual Life--1516-1700
  • Literature and Science--Europe
  • Inquisition--Spain
  • Barcelona (Spain)--History
  • Literature and society--Spain
  • Spain in literature
  • Social problems in literature
  • Social classes in literature