Between 1605 and 1615, Miguel de Cervantes wrote what a new translator's introduction calls the first modern novel, "Don Quixote" -- and some say it's been downhill ever since. Count among that ...

How Quixote’s Windmills Inspired a Spanish Inventor to ... “The old story is that Cierva came up with the idea because he was watching Don Quixote on the stage, and the windmill going ...

When George Balanchine created his "Don Quixote" in 1965, he told a collaborator that he could make the ballet because he had found a Dulcinea: the 19-year-old ballerina Suzanne Farrell.

When Don Quixote tilted with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while ...

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"Don Quixote" is one of the oddities of the established ballet repertory. For one thing, it’s very old. It premiered in 1869, well before standards like “Swan Lake” (1877), “The Sleeping ...

Yeldeğirmeni (The Windmill) Solidarity, a local group based in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, occupied a half-constructed apartment building abandoned for 15 years, calling it Don Quixote. bianet ...

Cinematic windmills The tragicomic misadventures of Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote. By James Keith La Croix. Feb 26, 2003 at 12:00 am ...

With Terry Gilliam, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp, Nicola Pecorini, and Philip Patterson, and narrated by Jeff Bridges. Don Quixote is a fairy tale. So is Bleak House, so is Dead Souls. Madame ...