See Alban K. Forcione, Cervantes' Christian Romance, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), pp. 108-148, and our article «Cervantine Imagery and Sex-Role Reversal in Fletcher and Massinger's The Custom of the Country», Cervantes, (V, Spring, 1985). (N. from the A.)

Wright -«Henrietta: You can come out now. No, wait. (She turns away from the bed.) Turn your face away from me. Keep it like that» (p. 30).

Cervantes -«... whoever you may be, you can see that you have taken the breath out of my chest, the light from my eyes and, finally, the life that sustained me; but, because I understand that it wasn't your fault, I want my pledged word to take precedence over revenge; and so, in fulfillment of the promise that I made to let you go when first you entered this room, you will have to do what I tell you: Put your hands over your face so that if I accidently open my eyes I won't be able to recognize you, and get out of this trap...» Weller and Colahan, trans., The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1989), p. 319. (N. from the A.)

See Ruth El Saffar's Beyond Fiction The Recovery of the Feminine in the Novels of Cervantes, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 127-169, for a discussion of the importance of sex-role reversal in Persiles. (N. from the A.)

This is a paper from a symposium on Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, as is explained in the Foreword of this issue of the journal. (N. from the E.)

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha, trans. Samuel Putnam (New York: Viking Press, Inc., 1949), p. 192. All future references will be to this edition and will be inserted parenthetically in the text. (N. from the A.)

René Girard, Deceit, Desire and the Novel, trans. Yvonne Freccero (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965). (N. from the A.)

Ibid., p. 48. (N. from the A.)

Miguel de Cervantes, The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, trans. Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), p. 274. Future references will be inserted parenthetically. (N. from the A.)

Cf. Manuel's: «Maria optimam partem elegit». Ibid., p. 57. (N. from the A.)

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William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (London: Methuen & Co., 1962), Act II, Scene ii, ll. 142-146. (N. from the A.)