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Based on the same episode of Cervantes’s novel as the lost Fletcher/Shakespeare work Cardenio, Castro’s version is an over-the-top tale of love and deception, ranging from absurdist comedy to telenovela machinations. Cardenio loves Lucinda, who is also pursued by Cardenio’s master, the Marqués Fernando, whom Lucinda wants nothing to do with. Dorotea, previously seduced and abandoned by Fernando, teams up with Cardenio so they can both regain their former lovers. The drama is punctuated with the mad fits of Don Quixote, who imitates the knights of ages past and declaims in faux medieval tones, amusing and alarming all.