Abstract
The episode of the ducal palace in Don Quijote (2.30-57) exhibits a critique of traditional codes of male behavior, represented by the Duke and the ecclesiastic, that extends to a more general censure of the noblemen's loss of social purpose and the clergymen's disregard of their evangelical mission. The condemnation of the Duke's conduct coincides with the diatribe against courtly efffeminacy linked to the crisis of masculinity related to imperial decline. This, and the disapproval of the ecclesiastic's verbal aggressiveness, expressed through his feminized representation, appeals to a new model of masculinity based on discipline and self-control.
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