Study Guide

Don Quixote Characters

By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Take a look at Don Quixote as a whole, and you'll see that our protagonist spends less than 0.5%...

From the get-go, it's Sancho's job to do whatever Don Quixote tells him.As you can imagine, this...

For starters, let's just clear the air. Dulcinea del Toboso is not a real person, and she never...

They don't have any lines, but apart from Don Quixote and Sancho, the horse Rocinante and the...

The curate is a local clergyman who lives in Don Quixote's village. For Part 1 of the book, he is...

When Sansón Carrasco first steps onto the scene, we get the feeling that we're not going...

The Duke and Duchess are basically a couple of pranksters with too much time on their hands.They...

Cardenio is your typical hopeless romantic, maybe even more so than the big Don Q.—and...

If Cardenio was our mountain man, then Dorotea is our mountain woman. She's also living in the...

It seems like everyone in Don Quixote has a pretty long story to tell, and the dude known only as...

Altisidora is a fifteen-year-old girl working in the service of the Duke and Duchess, who host...

Somewhere along the line, Cervantes forgets the name of Sancho's wife. In Part 1 of the book, we...

Doña Rodriguez is one of the Duchess's senior ladies-in-waiting, but she wasn't born a...