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"Man of La Mancha" is the story of Alonso Quijana, a poor gentleman from

Spain. He has read so many of the exaggerated romances of chivalry that he

finally believes them to be his reality and sets forth as Don Quixote, a

knight-errant on his old horse seeking many misadventures. And while this

insanity may be an object of distress for others, Quixote''s madness is

comforting to himself.



And all he reads oppresses him . . . fills him with indignation at man''s

murderous ways toward man. He broods . . . and broods . . . and broods- and

finally from so much brooding his brains dry up! He lays down the melancholy

burden of sanity and conceives the strangest project ever imagined . . . to

become a knight-errant and sally forth into the world to right all wrongs.



Although it appears that Don Quixote has just jumped off the deep end into a

sea of dementia, he is merely exchanging the cruel harsh reality of life for

his noble, fantastic dream world. Don sees......

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