Keywords: don quixote laughter, don quixote cervantes
Don Quixote's preliminary reception in the Seventeenth Century was as a work of humour; Cervantes' ability to reveal and imitate certainty through the ironic juxtaposition of his two main individuals enjoyed a focal role in both driving the story and attracting the interest of his viewers in the Golden Years. The existence of humour is undeniable throughout the novel, and Henry Fielding's attempts to attract readers to his comic romance Joseph Andrews by linking it to Don Quixote, claiming that he had 'written it in imitation of the manner of Cervantes' places the work as an exemplary book, that humour can not only be taken, but utilised to motivate and promote other works.
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