And now, before concluding and bidding my readers farewell, it remains for me to speak of the rôle that is reserved for Don Quixote in the modern European tragi-comedy.
Let us see, in the next and last essay, what this may be.
FOOTNOTES:
[54] Act II., Scene 4: "I am dreaming and I wish to act rightly, for good deeds are not lost, though they be wrought in dreams."
[55] Act III., Scene 10: "Let us aim at the eternal, the glory that does not wane, where bliss slumbers not and where greatness does not repose."
[56] "Se les muera," y no sólo "se muera."
[57] Trabalhos de Jesus, part i.
[58] De Musset.