Yale professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria continues his lecture on the second part of Don Quixote, focusing on Sancho Panza's governorship of the island of Barataria. He argues that Sancho's wise rule, contrasted with the shrewdness of the steward who stages the whole episode, reflects a crumbling aristocratic order and the rise of the common man as a plausible ruler. Barataria is read as a mock utopia and a laboratory for fiction making, one in which its author, the steward, gets ironically trapped by his own invention. Gonzalez Echevarria traces how Sancho and Don Quixote endure the duke and duchess's pranks with their dignity intact, turning the mockers into the mocked, and closes with a look at Freudian readings of the episode. Part of Yale's open course SPAN 300, Cervantes' Don Quixote, recorded in fall 2009.