The festival of Moors and Christians in the town of Caudete (Albacete), one of the oldest known, came into being within a dramatic tradition that goes back to the late Sixteenth Century. As a paradigmatic example of the dramatic creation process based on rewriting, the original play has been adapted to the audience’s ever changing horizons of expectations to constitute Episodios caudetanos, the core of nowadays celebration. History, religion, legend and literature complement each other in order to form a cultural phenomenon that transcends its mere playful essence as a popular festival. Through the archetypical figure of the moor, the identity of a community has been shaped (and, by extension, that of a whole nation) from the concept of a p...