Essay on Duke And Duchess: The Power Of Entertainment In Don Quixote

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Duke and Duchess: The Power of Entertainment in Don Quixote

I. Introduction

“These books are written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct, and introductions into life. They are the entertainment of minds unfurnished with ideas, and therefore easily susceptible of impressions; not fixed by principles, and therefore easily following the current of fancy; not informed by experience, and consequently open to every false suggestions and partial account.”

— Samuel Johnson

“[W]e are polluting the world with our television programs, our movies and so forth, our books. We are polluting the whole world. We've made the world drunk, if you will, with the wine of our fornication. The whole world has been affected by Hollywood."

— Pat Robertson

Creators of entertainment have always been made to answer for the effects that their works have on their audience, and on the larger society. However, the Spanish Inquisition had a much more invasive and powerful presence than modern critics of popular entertainment. Miguel de Cervantes published Don Quixote during the height of the Inquisition. Inquisitors’ stamps of approval are branded into the introductions of both parts: “I have had the book … submitted to examination. It contains nothing against the faith or good morals.” This overarching concern about the evils within entertainment must have had an oppressive effect. Yet, Cervantes also sees the

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