Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria continues his Yale course on Cervantes with a session on two central episodes of Part II: the descent into Montesinos cave and Master Peter's puppet show. He reads the cave scene as a test of the romances of chivalry against natural law, arguing that what Don Quixote claims to witness underground exposes and weakens, without fully destroying, his fantasies, a process of desengano that leaves him saner afterward. The second half turns to the puppet show, where Gines de Pasamonte reappears disguised as a puppeteer, letting Cervantes take aim at his rival Lope de Vega while using the trompe l'oeil of the puppets to examine how fiction imitates reality. The lecture treats both episodes as commentary on authorship and mimesis within the novel itself. Recorded in Fall 2009 as part of Yale's Spanish 300 course.