IMC, the Don Quixote you're reading... would it happen to be the Samuel Putnam translation? Coincidentally, that is the one favored by the author I recommended above, Jonathan Ames. IMHO, DQ (Don Quixote, not Dairy Queen) is one of the masterworks of the written word and as good as anything by 'Ol Bill for adaptation to live theater.
I can't believe that I'm the only one here who's read/reading Jonathan Ames (unless no one else wants to admit it)! Given his recent PR (he actually appeared on Letterman not too long ago... how often does a writer show up on late night talk shows), his happily shared tales of sexual and moral perversions, I'd have thought that he'd be the patron saint of some BEAers...