Don Quixote and Prospero
readings, readers that are being read, and the power of imagination
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Don Quixote, Prospero, read-readers, readings, imaginationAbstract
This essay explores the similarities in the way Alonso Quijano in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Prospero in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest relate as readers to their acts of reading and to their books. The former ones, although apparently rejected, are in fact, celebrated as the means that enhance the development of the imagination and fictional creation.
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