Abstract
roles. The artifice of their disguise, while more unique than the pastoral game and disguise in which youths of their class are expected to indulge, serves the same purpose. It allows young nobles temporarily to abandon quotidian reality in order to explore their own essence and ultimately to return to society secure in their awareness of self and of society. The male protagonists of La ilustrefregona and La gitanilla, like the pastoral protagonists, involve themselves in seemingly impossible amorous situations. However, don Tomas de Avendafio and don Juan de Circamo deviate from the pastoral pattern by falling in love with ladies whose social station apparently does not correspond to their
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