| Summary: | The citation of characters and adventures of chivalry romances in the Quixote is essential to recreate the parody of this literary genre. Far from being subject to the discipline of the hypotext, Cervantes trusts his memory – that is his ability to remember what he had read – to represent the world of chivalry. By so doing, along with accurate quotations, Cervantes inserts incorrect and imprecise, hidden or apocryphal citations, in which he continues or rewrites the inherited material in delicious plays on texts. These games are especially appreciated by chivalry lovers. The present article analyses these apocryphal quotations related to the Arthurian tradition (Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere, the apocryphal Arthurian chivalry) and to the Castilian romances of chivalry tradition (Amadís and family). With these apocryphal citations, some of them full of parody, Cervantes creates a new hypertext.
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