Manuel Tamayo y Baus

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.

Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.

London, 1605. William Shakespeare is about to launch a new drama in The Globe. The comic actor Yorick urges the author to grant him the lead role, although he is not very gifted for serious roles. Then it begins a curious correspondence between what happens on stage and what happens in real life.

Felipe I el Hermoso provokes with his behavior the madness of his wife, Juana de Castilla.