don quixote

Don Quixote "DonQuixote." Where and when that was written, we cannot tell. After his imprisonment all trace of Cervantes in his official capacity disappears, from which it may be inferred that he was not reinstated. That he was still in Seville in November 1598 appears froma satirical sonnet of his on the elaborate catafalque erected totestify the grief of the city at the death of Philip II, but from thisup to 1603 we have no clue to …showed first 75 words of 5040 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5040 total…life. It is plain, for one thing, that Sancho Panza did not enter into theoriginal scheme, for had Cervantes thought of him he certainly wouldnot have omitted him in his hero's outfit, which he obviously meant tobe complete. Him we owe to the landlord's chance remark in Chapter III that knights seldom travelled without squires. To try to think of aDon Quixote without Sancho Panza is like trying to think of aone-bladed pair of scissors