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She questions him on his seemingly irrational ways, and Quixote answers her with a statement of his credo, The Impossible Dream. Later Aldonza encounters Quixote in the courtyard where he is holding vigil, in preparation for being knighted by the innkeeper. They are interrupted by the arrival of an itinerant barber, and Quixote confiscates his shaving basin, believing it is the “Golden Helmet” of Mambrino. Carrasco arrive at the inn and are frustrated by Quixote’s lunatic logic.

Aldonza is confused and angered by Quixote’s refusal to see her as she really is. Quixote sees her as the dream-ideal whom he will serve forever and insists her name is Dulcinea. In a roadside inn-which Quixote insists is really a castle-Aldonza, the inn’s serving girl and part-time prostitute, is being propositioned by a gang of muleteers. The famous battle with the windmill follows, with Quixote blaming his defeat on his enemy, the Great Enchanter. Quixote and Sancho take to the road in a quest to restore the age of chivalry, battle all evil, and right all wrongs.

They then play out the story with the prisoners taking the roles of other characters. The “court” agrees, and Cervantes and his manservant don make-up and costumes, transforming themselves into Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. There he is dragged before a kangaroo court of his fellow prisoners, who plan to confiscate his few possessions-including the uncompleted manuscript of a novel, Don Quixote.Ĭervantes, seeking to save the manuscript, proposes his defense in the form of a play.

THE INN BETWEEN SYNOPSIS TRIAL

Miguel de Cervantes, aging and an utter failure as playwright, poet and tax collector, has been thrown into a dungeon in Seville to await trial by the Inquisition for an offense against the Church.

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