Introduction: why read the Quixote? -- Chivalric romances and picaresque novels: antecedents of the Quixote -- Don Quixote and Sancho on the road: books and windmills -- Literature and life: the Quixote and Las Meninas -- Ugliness and improvisation: Juan Palomeque's Inn -- Modern authors: Cervantes and Ginés de Pasamonte -- Love and the law: interrupted stories -- Memory and narrative: stories within stories -- Love stories resolved: fictions and metafictions -- Fugitives from justice caught: restitutions as closure at The inn -- The senses of endings: finishing the Quixote, Part I -- On to Part II: the real and the bogus Quixote -- Renaissance (1605) and Baroque (1615) Quixotes -- Deceiving and undeceiving: Baroque Desengao -- Don Quixote's doubles -- Present varieties of classical myths: Ovid, Cervantes, and Velasquez -- Caves and puppet shows: internal and external representations -- Don Quixote and Sancho in the hands of frivolous aristocrats -- Bearded ladies and flying horses: the duke's house of tricks -- King for a day: Sancho's Barataria -- Borders and ends: moriscos and bandits -- Dancing and defeat in Barcelona: Don Quixote heads home -- The meaning of the end: Don Quixote's death -- Cervantes' death and legacy.