World Literature Module 5.5
Don Quixote
Study Guide: World Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 5)
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
NOTE: This is a lengthy, rollicking adventure, and is excellent as an audiobook, especially for auditory students.
Audiobook: http://amzn.to/2r0kNqp
EIL 5.5 Context Resources
These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.
Readings
https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/don-quixote-and-glory-life-come-why-we-study-cervantes
http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/cervantes/quixote.htm#study_questions
https://libguides.usc.edu/don_quixote
https://www.erasmus.org/index.cfm?itm_name=erasmus-EN
https://tiltingatwindmillsblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/historical-timeline-spain-1510-1616/
The Author’s Life
https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/miguel-de-cervantes-biography/
Miguel De Cervantes by Barbara Keevil Parker and Duane F. Parker at Amazon.com
https://www.biography.com/writer/miguel-de-cervantes
Poetry
https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/lepanto-by-g-k-chesterton
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Battle_of_Lepanto
http://ingber.spanish.sbc.edu/cgi-bin/sonnets.py?activity=get_poem&poem_id=quevedo11
http://ingber.spanish.sbc.edu/cgi-bin/sonnets.py?activity=get_poem&poem_id=gongora12
http://ingber.spanish.sbc.edu/cgi-bin/sonnets.py?activity=get_poem&poem_id=gongora03
Audio
Audiobook: http://amzn.to/2r0kNqp (Recommended)
Volume 1: http://librivox.org/don-quixote-vol-1-by-miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/ (Amateur)
Volume 2: http://librivox.org/don-quixote-vol-2-by-miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/
Music
http://classiccat.net/victoria_tl_de/index.htm
http://www.uma.es/victoria/mp3.html
Video
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181212/
https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/don-quixote-2000-film-clip
Visual Arts
https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/renaissance-art/
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1356.html#works
http://cervantes.dh.tamu.edu/veri/Bowle/index.htm
Historical Context
https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/the-medieval-synthesis-under-attack-by-steven-kreis
Eyewitness Renaissance by Alison Cole
https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/history-of-the-renaissance-by-bamber-gascoigne
Index of World Literature context link pages
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World Literature Texts (recommended editions)
British Lit study guide, and links to focus and honors texts (opens in a new tab at the author’s Everyday Education site)
