Note 534 — Chapter XX
Reading edition
The story of “El Zeloso Estremeño” is altered from that of the same name by Cervantes, but is indebted to it largely, and takes the names of several of its personages. At the end of the play entitled “De un Castigo dos Venganzas,” a play full of horrors, Montalvan declares the plot to be—
Historia tan verdadera, Que no ha cincuenta semanas, Que sucedió.
Almost all his plays are founded on exciting and interesting tales.