Don Quixote in England
Subtitle: the aesthetics of laughter
By: Ronald Paulson.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Influence; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Comedy; Empiricism; Aesthetics, British -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Description: Seldom has a single book, much less a translation, so deeply affected English literature as did 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, Ronald Paulson highlights the qualities of the novel that most attracted English imitators. The English Don Quixote was not the same knight who meandered through Spain or found a place in other translations throughout Europe. The English Don Quixote found employment in all sorts of specifically English ways, not excluding the political uses to which a Spanish fool could be turned.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-231) and index.