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John Phillips, John Milton, Don Quixote, and the Disenchantment of Romance
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 2, June 2014
- pp. 169-186
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0014
- Article
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In 1687, Milton’s nephew and pupil John Phillips published a translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote […] Now Made English According to the Humour of our Modern Language. Although condemned as a vulgar travesty, Phillips’s adaptation extends our understanding of the disenchantment of romance in the seventeenth century.