Don Quixote (In Our Time)
1605 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th century novel, Don Quixote. Published four hundred years ago in Madrid, the book was an immediate success and recognised as one of the classic texts of Western Literature, revered by writers such as Sterne, Goethe, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka and Melville.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1605
- English Civil War (1642)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)