Quixote

QUIXOTE film by Steven Ritz-Barr

Available on DVD in MARCH 2010.

The book, Don Quixote by Cervantes, published in 1605, is

–Translated into more languages and published more often than any book except the Bible.

-Illustrated more than any other book– which helps make the graphic figure of Don Quixote the most recognizable literary character in the world.

-Adapted to the stage more often than any other nondramatic work?

-Adapted to music in the forms of opera, ballet, orchestral music, and popular song more often than any other work of literature.

-The inspiration or source of more films than any other work of literature?

(information compiled by Dr. Howard Mancing, Cervantes scholar, Purdue University professor, author of numerous books on Cervantes.)