The Pseudonym of Spinoza's Publisher

Abstract

laugh at him as unkindly as the dramatists did nearly a century after he had told his story. Sancho becomes in their hands more cowardly; his unwillingness to undertake the " adventure " serves not only as a retarding moment in the action ; it is part of the characterization, and somewhat unsympathetic. Even the terms used in the plays in speaking of Sanche or in addressing him are discordant in the ears of a lover of Cervantes :