Marriage would be the aim and purpose of a woman of Dorotea's condition, though she could never, under more normal circumstances, expect to marry someone of Don Fernando's social class. (N. from the A.)

Murillo draws our attention to this figure of speech in his edition, p. 354, note 19. (N. from the A.)

Cf. Edward Dudley, «The Wild Man Goes Baroque», in The Wild Man Within, ed. E. Dudley and M. E. Novak, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), pp. 115-139. (N. from the A.)

Cf. Ruth El Saffar, Beyond Fiction: The Recovery of the Feminine in the Works of Cervantes, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. (N. from the A.)

Cf. Javier Herrero, «Arcadia's Inferno: Cervantes' Attack on Pastoral», BHS, 55, (1978), 289-99; also Edward Dudley, «Don Quijote as Magus: The Rhetoric of Interpolation», BHS, 49, (1972), 355-368, and my own «The Sierra Morena as Labyrinth», MLN, 99 (1984), 214-34. (N. from the A.)

Cf. articles mentioned in preceding note, and also Marthe Robert, The Old and the New, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 12-22). (N. from the A.)

On this vast theme of «honor» in Golden Age Spain, the literature is enormous. I have found some very useful comments, though concerning another area of interest, in Edwin Honig's Calderón and the Seizures of Honor, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP. 1972. (N. from the A.)

Cf. note 26, Girard and Bandera. (N. from the A.)

I want to thank Professor Ruth El Saffar for having kindly consented to read an earlier draft of this paper and for her suggestions. (N. from the A.)

Part II, Ch. 22. Further references will be incorporated into the text. (N. from the A.)