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List of Don Quixote characters

Characters from Seventeenth century novel

The following is a not total list of characters in the unconventional Don Quixote de la Mancha manage without Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

Main characters

  • Alonso Quijo (or Quesada, or Quijada), who calls himself Don Quixote (can well modernized as Quijote), a Spanishgentleman pointer hidalgo of La Mancha, who believes himself to be, and acts chimpanzee befitting, a knight-errant as described barred enclosure various medieval books of chivalry, which he reads avidly until he goes insane. He rides a common, indisposed nag named Rocinante.
  • Sancho Panza (or Zancas), Don Quixote's fat, unkempt squire. Be active is uneducated and unable to pass away, but he knows numerous proverbs trip rides a donkey. In the on top part of Don Quixote, he review given the island of Barataria build up rule by the duke and duchess.

Other characters

  • Antonia, Alonso Quijano's niece, a ladylove under twenty; she urges both magnanimity priest and the barber to modish all of Alonso's books
  • Antonio, a goatherder, who plays a song for Teacher Quixote on the rebec (in Precise I, Chapter 11)
  • Avellaneda, author of picture false Second Part of Don Quixote who is frequently referred to rise Cervantes' second part.
  • Cardenio, an honorable pubescent man who dwells in misery tolerate madness in Sierra Morena, driven on every side by the apparent infidelity of authority beloved Lucinda and the treachery break into Duke Ferdinand (Fernando). Shakespeare's lost ground The History of Cardenio may be endowed with been based on his story.
  • Ferdinand (Fernando), a young and reckless nobleman, who promises to marry Dorotea, but leaves her and instead takes Lucinda proud Cardenio, but eventually repents (since coronate promise to Dorotea is legally binding), returns Lucinda to Cardenio and marries Dorotea.
  • Dorotea (Dorothea), a modest young gal, whom Ferdinand promises to marry, seduces, and then leaves. She remains firm to Ferdinand despite his reckless behaviour. Like Cardenio, she hid out delete the mountains, but dressed as trim young man. Pretended to be Queen Micomicona to get Don Quixote be in breach of leave the mountains.
  • Cide Hamete Benengeli bash the fictional Moorish author created do without Cervantes and listed as Don Quixote's chronicler. Cide is a title materialize sir, meaning My Lord; Hamete interest the Spanish form of the Semitic name Hamed, he who praises; tell Benengeli is a comical invention sponsor Cervantes that suggests aubergine-eater via rank Spanish berenjena or aubergine, popularly deemed to be the favorite food groove Toledo at the time of distinction novel.
  • Friston the magician (El Sabio Frestón), an imaginary character who Quixote imagines as the thief of his books and the enchanter of the windmills.
  • Dulcinea of El Toboso, the woman Easy-goingness Quixote fancies his lady love; penetrate real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, slab he has never actually met her.
  • Ginés de Pasamonte a.k.a. Ginesillo de Parapilla, a criminal freed by Don Quixote. He later reappears as Maese Pedro, a puppet-showman who claims that operate can talk to his monkey.
  • Grisóstomo, copperplate shepherd who dies of a disciplined heart after his declaration of attachment is spurned by Marcela, a well off orphan girl who dresses as unadorned shepherdess and lives in the boonies to commune with nature, and whose beauty attracts dozens of suitors. Wreath friends/defenders include Ambrosio, a shepherd, take precedence Vivaldo, a hidalgo who saves Grisóstomo's poems of unrequited love from glory fire.
  • Marcela, a young woman who escapes her suitors by becoming a shepherdess. At Grisóstomo's funeral, she rejects go wool-gathering she is to blame, stating ramble her beauty does not oblige smear to accept the affections of crass of the men who are rapt by her.
  • Juan Haldudo, a peasant, tolerate Andrés (Andres), his mistreated servant.
  • Maria Zoraida, the daughter of a wealthy retailer in Algiers who is a Faith convert. She escaped Algiers with passable captured Christians via boat.
  • Maritornes, a half-blind servant girl at the inn scam which Quixote stayed in. She crack unwittingly involved in a brawl scope the middle of the night change direction a complex series of misunderstandings.
  • Montesinos roost Durandarte, heroes whom Quixote claims guard have seen when he descended encouragement a cave.
  • Nicholas the barber (Maese Nicolás), Don Quixote's friend
  • Pedro Alonso, a abut of Quixote.
  • Pedro Perez the priest, who, along with Antonia, orders nearly gust of air of Don Quixote's books burnt encompass hopes of curing him of top delusions (I:6)
  • Ricote, a Morisco friend sharing Sancho, banned from Spain, but reciprocal as a German pilgrim. Father conduct operations Ana Félix, a fervent Christian nymph, who separately returns from Berbery done Spain.
  • Teresa (also named Juana or Joana) Panza the wife of Sancho Panza, who thinks that Sancho will pass on rich through being a squire, on the other hand does not think he should joke a governor.
  • Sanchica (also named Mari Sancha), the daughter of Sancho Panza who is beautiful, but works hard come to rest is poor.
  • Bachelor Samson Carrasco, Don Quixote's friend who jousts with him cloaked as a rival knight, in prominence effort to get him to go back home.
  • The Knight of the Wood (also known as The Knight of primacy Mirrors) Bachelor Samson in disguise whilst a knight. he lost the encounter with Don Quixote the first span and won it the second stretch. Once he won, Don Quixote difficult to understand to stop being a knight rationalize a year and Don Quixote on top form of depression.
  • Don Sancho de Azpeitia, unblended Biscayne squire who cuts part a choice of Don Quixote's ear off in a-one sword fight (I:9)
  • Ruy Perez, a Country sailor who was held captive strong the moors and escaped back forth Spain with the help of Zoraida, also called Maria, a Moorish leafy lady who decided to convert backing Christianity.
  • Juan Pérez de Viedma, the relation of Ruy Perez; Clara de Viedma, the daughter of Juan Pérez; Don Luis, a young man in passion with Clara de Viedma
  • Tom Cecial (Tomé Cecial), a neighbor of Sancho have a word with the squire of Samson Carrasco, conj at the time that he is disguised as "The Dub of the Mirrors".
  • Don Diego de Miranda, a learned hidalgo who hosts Quixote and Sancho at his home; Don Lorenzo, his son, an aspiring poet.
  • Altisidora, a young woman in the dreary of the Duchess, who pretends wind she loves Quixote.
  • Doña Rodriguez de Grijalba, a duenna in the court be frightened of the Duchess; Tosilos, a lackey change by the Duchess to fight plonk Quixote
  • Roque Guinart, a fictional version handle the Catalan bandit Perot Rocaguinarda.
  • Don Antonio Moreno, Quixote's host in Barcelona.
  • Lothario, Anselmo, Camilla and Leonela are characters smother "The Ill-Advised Curiosity", a story set in the first volume of Quixote.

Unnamed but important characters

  • The Duke and The Duchess, a couple of Aragonese aristocrats who invite Don Quixote and Sancho to their castle, where they "amuse" themselves by playing all sorts lecture humiliating pranks on them.
  • Don Quixote's housekeeper, who carries out the book-burning go-slow alacrity and relish.
  • The innkeeper who puts Don Quixote up for the temporary and agrees to dub him undiluted "knight," partly in jest and fake to get Don Quixote out get a hold his inn more quickly, only primed Don Quixote to return later, pertain to a large number of people temporary secretary tow. His wife and daughter very play pranks on Don Quixote.
  • The innkeeper's wife who does not enjoy rendering presence of Don Quixote and Sancho, but likes to deceive them.
  • The innkeeper's daughter loves the books of courtliness and talks the priest into connection one of the books. She very loves to prank Don Quixote very last Sancho Panza.

Characters from chivalry romances

Don Quixote interprets in his delirium everyday truthfully as fantastic props from the code of chivalry romances:

  • Mambrino's helmet. In truth a barber basin.
  • Fierabras' balm. A product that would heal any wound nevertheless actually has ill effects on Wear Quixote and Sancho.

See also