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is actually a satire with the chivalric romances well known during Cervantes’s time. Center-aged Don Quixote of 16th-century La Mancha, Spain, spends his lifestyle looking through these epic tales. They encourage him to revive what he sees as the lost principle of chivalry, so he picks up a sword and shield and gets to be a knight. His goal is to