Teacher Resources: Don Quijote: 400 Years of Reading, Realism, and Ridicule

Don Quijote: 400 Years of
Reading, Realism, and Ridicule

Teacher Resources

Developed for the Teacher Institute seminar that took place August 10-11, 2005.

Web Sites
Exploring Don Quixote
From the Kennedy Center's ARTSEDGE web site. Includes background information about Cervantes's time and place, a story synopsis, the art of translation, and more.

Don Quixote de la Mancha
A digital exhibit of translations and illustrations of Don Quixote from Johns Hopkins University, available in Spanish and English.

Centro Virtual Cervantes
Extensive Spanish web site about Cervantes and Don Quijote.

Don Quijote-Related Music
Includes a lot of information about the music inspired by Don Quixote. (in English)

Don Quixote Virtual Museum
Includes many items to view (and listen to) relating to Don Quixote: books, plates, stationary, T-shirts, downloadable music, videos, and more.

Cervantes y Don Quijote by Daniel Eisenberg
Full Spanish text online of this book useful for teaching the novel.

The Cervantes Project
A comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works and life.

Don Quixote Iconography
The Cervantes Project is creating a fully accessible, searchable and documented electronic database and digital archive of all the illustrations that form the textual iconography of the Quixote.

The Route of Don Quixote
"The Route of Don Quixote" is a teaching tool to give students a visual idea of the places, adventures and characters that are portrayed in Cervantes' famous novel. Created by a professor at the Minnesota State University-Mankato.

Don Quijote de la Mancha: Serie de animación, Largometrajes & divertidas Actividades
Spanish cartoon version of Don Quijote. Site includes free downloadable cartoon episodes and other activities.

Regarding Cervantes, Multicultural Dreamer
A New York Times article by Edward Rothstein.

Bibliography and Suggested Reading (Spanish)
Anón. La historia del muy valiente y esforçado cavallero Clamades. En historias caballerescas
del siglo XVI. Volumen II. Ed.Nieves Baranda. Madrid: Biblioteca Castro Turner, 1995.

Bernal, Beatriz. Don Cristalián de España. Edición modernizada con introducción crítica de Sidney Stuart Park. Temple University, 1980. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 2002.

Eisenberg, Daniel. Cervantes y Don Quijote. Barcelona: Montesinos, 1993.

Fernández de Avellaneda, Alonso. Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Madrid: Castalia, 1972, c1971.
** The false Part Two about which Cervantes writes in his prologue to the 1605 Don Quijote and in several chapters starting with II,59.

Fuentes, Carlos. Cervantes o la crítica de la lectura. México: Editorial J. Mortiz, 1976.

Leonard, Irving A. Los libros del conquistador. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996 (1953. Harvard U.P. 1949).

Martorell, Joanot. Tirante el Blanco. Trad. castellana del siglo XVI. Ed. Martín de Riquer. Barcelona: Planeta, 1990.

Piñero Ramírez, Pedro M., ed. Descensus ad inferos: La aventura de ultratumba de los héroes (de Homero a Goethe). Sevilla: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 1995.

Rodríguez de Montalvo, Garci. Amadís de Gaula I y II. Ed. Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua. Madrid: Cátedra, 1988.

Rodríguez de Montalvo, Garci. Las sergas de Esplandián. Ed. Carlos Sainz de la Maza. Madrid: Clásicos Castalia, 2003.

Rojas, Fernando de. La Celestina.

Sefchovich, Sara. La señora de los sueños. Miami: Santillana USA Publishing Company, 2002.

Unamuno, Miguel de. Niebla. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra S.A., 1992.

Bibliography and Suggested Reading (English)
When you buy any of the following books from the Barnes and Noble.com web site using these links, your purchase will benefit the Minnesota Humanities Commission.

Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso. Tr. Guido Waldman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Bergmann, Emilie and Paul Julian Smith, Eds. "Aldonza as Butch: Narrative and the Play of Gender in Don Quijote" in ¿Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Bjornson, Richard, Ed. Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote, Vol. 3. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1984.

Dalglish, Cass. "Grail Stories: Echoes of the Descent of Inanna." Mythos Núm 7: The Grail Quest. Frontenac, Minnesota: Mythos Institute, 1998.

Gilman, Stephen. "Birth" and "Invention" in The Novel According to Cervantes. Berkeley: UCP, 1989.

Eliade, Mircea. Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1965 [1958].

Martorell, Joanot. Tirant Lo Blanc. Tr. David H. Rosenthal. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Tr. Edward Storer. New York: Dover Publications, 1998.

Riley, E.C. Cervantes's Theory of the Novel. Ed. Thomas Lathrop. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 1992.

Rodríguez de Montalvo, Garci. Amadis of Gaul. Tr. Edwin B. Place and Herbert C. Behm. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c2003.

Saffar, Ruth El and Diana de Armas Wilson, Eds. Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Weston, Jessie L. Quest of the Holy Grail. New York: Dover, 2001 (1913).

Recommended Editions of Don Quijote
English:
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. Tr. Edith Grossman. New York: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, Inc., 2005.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Complete English text online (translated by John Ormsby.)

Spanish:
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quijote de la Mancha. Ed. John Jay Allen. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2004.
(This is printed in two volumes and has to be special-ordered from a foreign book distributor.)
Vol. I ISBN: 84-376-0117-7 and Vol. II ISBN: 84-376-2215-8

Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quijote de la Mancha. Ed. Francisco Rico. Brazil: Real Academia Española Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española: Alfaguara, 2004.

Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quijote de la Mancha. Ilustrado por Salvador Dalí. Ed. Martín de Riquer. Barcelona: Planeta Publishing Corporation, 2005.

Lesson Plans and Ideas
Don Quixote
for Grades 9-12, English class. From the Discovery Channel web site.

Teacher Pointers: Don Quijote
for 3rd grade Spanish class

The Enduring Quest: A Study of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Novel Don Quixote
Grades 10-12. From the Kennedy Center's ARTSEDGE web site.

An Introduction to Don Quixote
Grades 9-12. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

The Windmill Scene from Don Quixote
Grades 2-5, Spanish. From the National Capital Language Resource Center "Culture Club" web site.

European Literature 500-1900: Don Quixote
Grade 12, English. From the Connecticut Technical High School System web site.

Don Quijote: Una vida de ficción
Grades 10-12, Spanish. From the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain web site.

Web Quest: "El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha"
Grades 10-12, Spanish. From the EducaMadrid web site.

Web Quest: Don Quixote Time Warped!
Grade 10. From the Bradley University web site.