Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction: Toward a Poetics of Friendship 1
5. 1. Boccaccio’s Tale of Two Friends 27
6. 2. Plotting Imperfections in La Galatea 52
7. 3. The End of an Ideal: Cervantes’s “El curioso impertinente” 77
8. 4. Staging Intimacy in Guillén de Castro 109
9. 5. María de Zayas’s Good Friends 137
10. 6. Guzmán de Alfarache’s “Otro yo” 158
11. 7. The Errantry of Friendship in Don Quixote 176
12. Works Cited 221
13. Index 229