Koppenfels, Werner von
“Samuel Butler’s Hudibras: A Quixotic Perspective of Civil War”. In: Cervantes in the English Speaking World. (Estudios de literatura 96) Kassel 2005, pp. 25-42.

The way Samuel Butler’s (1613-1680) Hudibras appropriates its Spanish pre-text in the dual mode of agreement and dissension is both highly original and characteristic of his epoch’s satiric and farcical approach to Don Quixote. Its quixotism, evident in Butler’s transformation of the Cervantine characters, episodes, and narrative voice, can be seen to serve as a broad metaphor for the pseudo-religious and pseudo-heroic madness of the self-styled Puritan saints and fighters of God, and thus constitutes an early Enlightenment critique of misused reason.