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Observation: lead sentence

The lead sentence currently reads:

Don Quixote ..., fully titled The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, ...), is a Spanish novel ...

It may sound trivial but it seems very strange to say the common name is "Don Quixote" and then say the full title is "The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha". Aside from the fact that sir is not even technically an accurate translation (it is really esquire), it make more sense to simply use don since that is what is being used in the abbreviated name. It is bizarre to be inconsistent.

Perhaps equally important, most sources that provide the full English-language title use don, i.e. "The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha". For example:

  • Kernberger, Katherine, ed. (2017). The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015: A Legacy in Byron Studies. p. 73.
  • Faiella, Graham (2004). Spain: A Primary Source Cultural Guide. p. 83.
  • Threlfall, Monica (2000). Consensus Politics in Spain: Insider Perspectives. p. 26.

-- MC 2605:6000:EC16:C000:788F:7B8E:6EFE:4126 (talk) 04:14, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Future edits to this article

When I was in high school, we read a book about an apocalyptic future, which seemed to be the aftermath of a nuclear war, until someone pointed out that the copyright date was before nuclear weapons were invented, and therefore we could not be correct in our interpretation.

I imagine that someone, someday, will read about Don Quixote, assume that Cervantes was satirizing Donald Trump by creating a character who attacks windmills and is delusional, and try to edit this article to point out the "obvious", without feeling the need for a reliable source. Please don't. Don Quixote was written over 400 years before the Trump Presidency. Any similarities are just a coincidence. Thank you.

47.139.40.232 (talk) 05:15, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Images

Gustave Doré's illustrations are great, but they seem overused in this article. There are more illustrators of Don Quixote: c:Category:Don Quixote by chapter. strakhov (talk) 06:43, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edith Grossman's highly acclaimed translation?

In section 2, Meaning we have:

Edith Grossman, who wrote and published a highly acclaimed English translation of the novel in 2003

Acclaimed, perhaps, but not highly acclaimed, considering Edith Grossman#cite note-6.

Senra (talk) 16:04, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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