[Music] in the introduction of Don Quixote Alonso Quijano is obsession with chivalric romance stories turns into insanity when he gives up his idle days and takes on the persona of a knight-errant named Don Quixote armed with shabby armor and homemade helmets he and his elderly horse Rocinante set off for adventure in the Spanish countryside he dedicates his career as a knight to a local woman he refers to as Dulcinea del Toboso despite the fact that he's never spoken to her in the rising action Don Quixote acquires a squire Sancho Panza a local peasant farmer and
not the brightest guy in town Don Quixote and Sancho Panza defeat the Basque page and meet a number of interesting people on their adventures he and Sancho end up in the mountains Don Quixote decides the best way to show his love for Dulcinea is to perform acts of madness he sends Sancho Panza to Toboso with a message for Dulcinea but he's interrupted by pero Perez and master Nicolas a priest and surgeon barber from Don Quixote hometown worried about their friend they devise a scheme to bring Don Quixote home and cure him of his madness this
plan involves a fake princess an imaginary giant and several stories within the story about honor virtue and love Don Quixote vows to serve princess micomicona and Don Quixote has finally delivered home via oxcarts part 2 which miguel de cervantes wrote ten years later begins as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza packed their saddlebags for another adventure they go on more comical adventures together and even learn about the publication of their adventures by a moorish author donkey Sancho Panza take a trip to Montesinos cave where the Don dreams of famous Knights Sancho Panza and Don Quixote end
up in a castle where their nobility play endless mean-spirited pranks on the pair Sancho Panza is sent to an island where he becomes a pretty good governor in the climax the knight of the white moon challenges Don Quixote if Don Quixote wins he can kill the other night if he loses he must retire from Knight errantry for a year he is beaten soundly in the falling action Don Quixote decides that he should become a shepherd and adopt the lifestyle found in pastoral romances falls ill back at home and renounces Knight errantry and chivalric romances and
in the resolution Don Quixote dies you
