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Don Quixote TIME: In the spring of 1580 in Spain. However bookkeeping was a complicated and arduous procedure and Don Miguel Cervantes was twice imprisoned for owing money to the treasury from a shortage in his accounts. Cervantes disagrees whether or not the Seville prison was the proper place to begin writing Don Quixote. Each act is about a two days journey with each scene taking place in the morning, afternoon, and night. PLACE: La Mancha, Spain. The luminosity of the rocky wilderness of the Sierra Morena in La Mancha serves to separate the various scenes that take place there- Don Quixote’s penance, Cardenio’s meeting with the curate and barber, Dorothea’s story- and it provides, as well as safe refuge from the police force. The scorched July morning shows what a madman it takes to begin knight-errantry when it is so hot; the dusty road serves to block the two flocks of sheep which the hero thinks are armies; and a verdant meadow; the scene of Rosinate’s skip with the mares, provides the adventure of the Yanguesian carriers. SOCIETY: Family relationships Dorothea Dorothea is the daughter of a farmer who is seduced by the son of a duke (not the same duke that hosts Don Quixote in the second part of t