To call Don Quixote a novel, though, doesn’t quite do justice to the experience of reading the text. The plot, insofar as there is one, revolves around the Spanish hidalgo Alonso Quixano, who spends ...

Director, writer and animator Terry Gilliam has accomplished a lot in his lengthy career. There's the cult classic Brazil (widely considered his masterpiece), as well as the critically acclaimed The ...

Choreographers including Alexander Gorsky and Marius Petipa, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Kevin McKenzie and Susan Jones have all ...

Terry Gilliam has tried to make a movie based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote for almost thirty years. There have been fits and starts, a production so cursed it was retold in an acclaimed ...

The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance is turning 400. By some accounts, the first part of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s masterpiece, was available in Valladolid by Christmas Eve 1604, although ...

Today, people all over the world will honor the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who died 399 years ago on April 22, 1616. Since then, many readers have connected with the writer and his books, ...

Although, with legal action taken against a producer who claims the film rights are his, the curse hanging over the once near-mythically doomed 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' may not be lifted just ...

Last year, a panel of 100 writers from around the world picked "Don Quixote" as the greatest novel of all time. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Edith Grossman, who wrote the most-recent translation of ...

ARGAMASILLA DE ALBA, Spain (Reuters) - When he wrote "Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes did not give away the name of the birthplace of the eponymous middle-aged gentleman obsessed with heroically ...

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd,” wrote Miguel de Cervantes, the Shakespeare of Spain. And the quest to find his remains has sometimes seemed both, even (dare one say ...