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A house with two doors is difficult to guard: Don Félix, whose friend Lisardo is staying with him, hides his sister Marcela so that Lisardo will not know of her presence. However, Marcela has been meeting Lisardo outside the house, although he does not know who she is. Marcela now arranges to meet Lisardo in the house of a friend, Laura, who is Félix's beloved. Both houses have two doors (front and side), and as one character comes in one door,...
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"The drama of the Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) is Spain's most extensive literary achievement. Paralleling the burst of dramatic activity in England, it encompassed in purely Spanish terms the moral, intellectual and artistic atmosphere of the time--the conflicts between reality and appearance, love and honor, passion and folly--leading to an admixture of the comic and tragic and to the invention of such universal and enduring characters as Don Juan...