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"La moza de cántaro" by Lope de Vega is a play written in 1618. This comedic work of mistaken identities follows the beautiful Doña María, who flees her hometown after killing a man to avenge an insult to her father. Taking refuge in Madrid, she disguises herself as a lowly water-carrier to escape detection. When the nobleman Don Juan falls for her, she must maintain her deception while navigating the dangerous consequences of her past actions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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The vast number of the works of Lope de Vega renders the task of
selecting one of them as an appropriate text for publication very
difficult, and it is only after having examined a large number of the
works of the great poet that the editor has chosen La Moza de Cántaro,
not only because it is one of the author's most interesting comedies,
but also because it stands forth prominently in the field in which he is
preëminent--the interpretation of Spanish life and character. It too is
one of the few plays of the poet which have continued down to recent
times in the favor of the Spanish theater-going public,--perhaps in the
end the most trustworthy critic. Written in Lope's more mature years, at
the time of his greatest activity, and probably corrected or rewritten
seven years later, this play contains few of the inaccuracies and
obscure passages so common to many of his works, reveals to us much of
interest in Spanish daily life and in a way reflects the condition of
the Spanish capital during the reign of Philip IV, which certainly was
one of the most brilliant in the history of the kingdom.

The text has been taken completely, without any omissions or
modifications, from the Hartzenbusch collection of Comedias Escogidas
de Lope de Vega published in the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles and,
where it varies from other texts with which it has been compared, the
variation is noted. The accentuation has been changed freely to conform
with present usage, translations have been suggested for passages of
more than ordinary difficulty and full notes given on proper names and
on passages that suggest historical or other connection. Literary
comparisons have been made occasionally and modern forms or equivalents
for archaic words and expressions have been given, but usually these
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