101

Cf. Bruce W. Wardropper's application of the term in «El trastorno de la moral en el Lazarillo», NRFH, 15 (1961), 441-47. (N. from the A.)

102

Literature and the Delinquent (Edinburgh: University Press, 1967), p. 21. (N. from the A.)

103

«¿Qué ha de hacer la doncellita que apenas sabe andar y trae una Diana en la faltriquera?... ¿Cómo dirá Pater noster en las Horas, la que acaba de sepultar a Píramo y Tisbe en Diana?...» (Vol. I, ed. P. Félix García [Madrid: «La Lectura», 1930], p. 60. (N. from the A.)

104

In the «Discurso preliminar» to his edition of Rinconete (Madrid: Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos, 1920), p. 169, Rodríguez Marín supports a date of composition as early as 1601 or 1602. The Novelas ejemplares were published in 1613. (N. from the A.)

105

«Rinconete y Cortadillo: Realismo, carácter picaresco, alegría», Insula, 23, núm. 254 (January, 1968), 18a. (N. from the A.)

106

Theocritus, «Idyll VIII», in The Idylls of Theocritus in English Verse, tr. W. Douglas P. Hill (Eton, Windsor: Shakespeare Head Press, 1959), p. 37. (N. from the A.)

107

Metamorphoses, tr. Rolfe Humphries (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955), Book I, p. 6. (N. from the A.)

108

«The Diana of Montemayor: Revaluation and Interpretation», SP, 48 (1951), 132. (N. from the A.)

109

Los siete libros de la Diana, ed. Francisco López-Estrada (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1970), pp. 71-72. (N. from the A.)

110

Varela rightly notes the resemblance of the scene at the Casa de Monipodio to a typical Cervantine entremés (p. 444a). However, if the entremés is as Eugenio Asensio states «vacaciones morales» (Itinerario del entremés [Madrid: Gredos, 1965], p. 34), the Exemplary Novel like Spain's Golden Age comedy usually ends with society's order restored. Wardropper explains that the spectators at the theater enjoy the «abdication... of social responsibility» vicariously.

But from all truancy there must be a return to normal life. And in this return to normality the audience finds a second source of gratification. It is comforted when it sees the truants resume their proper places in a divinely ordained social hierarchy, in a world right-side-up... As the Spanish theoreticians put it, comedy cleanses the soul of its passions...

(«Lope de Vega's Urban Comedy», Hispanófila Especial, núm. 1 [1974], pp. 56-57)

(N. from the A.)