what era is Don Quixote set?

Answer 1

It is set in the late 1500s and written in the early 1600s. This era could be called the late Renaissance or simply the Renaissance. In a Spanish context it is called the Siglo de Oro (or "Golden Age"). This refers to the time after the Reconquista (ending with the fall of Granada in 1492) when Spain was one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world-there was a great flourishing of literature and art at this time e.g Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, Velasquez etc.

Answer 2

The first version of the novel was written in 1605 and a revised version appeared in 1615, but the setting is actually concerned with an earlier era when knights and chivalry were vital parts of court life. That is why Don Quixote is such a comic novel. In the novel, poor Don Quixote doesn't know that that era has passed forever. In the real world of the novel, men no longer go on heroic quests or defended damsels in distress because that time had passed forever. Still, Don Quixote, against all evidence to the contrary, continues to insist that he is living in heroic times. Sad but funny too.

Take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixotea

Answer 3

Don Quixote was written by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes and it's set in the 15th century in Spain.

Answer 4

Thomas Shelton wrote the first between 1612 and 1620; he was followed by John Phillips (a nephew of John Milton) in 1687, John Stevens in 1700, Peter Motteaux in 1700-3, and Charles Jarvis in 1742. After Smollett came 19th-century translators like John Ormsby (1885) -- who called John Phillips' version "a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day" -- and 20th-century translators like Samuel Putnam (1949), Walter Starkie (1964), and John Rutherford, author of the latest Penguin Classics edition in 2000.

so, late 1500's

Answer 5

The Modern era, which the novel ushered in.

Answer 6

it was written in the 16 century, considered the first modern novel. probably set about that time.

Answer 7

The Knight who Chased Windmills?...I would say sometime during the sixteenth century but that is only a guess.

Answer 8

probably 18th centry.