This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

Cervantes's Exemplary Prologue - Stephen Boyd
Enchantment and Irony: Reading La gitanilla - William Clamurro
The Play of Desire: El amante liberal and El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros - Peter Dunn
Language as Object of Representaion in Rinconete y Cortadillo - A K G Paterson
Now you see it, now you... see it again? The Dynamics of Doubling in La española inglesa -
Soldiers and Satire in El licenciado Vidriera - Stephen Rupp
Exemplary Rape: The Central Problem of La fuerza de la sangre - Anthony John Lappin
Remorse, Retribution and Redemption in La fuerza de la sangre : Spanish and English Perspectives [with Trudi Darby] - B. W. Ife
Remorse, Retribution and Redemption in La fuerza de la sangre : Spanish and English Perspectives [with B. W. Ife] - T L Darby
Free Thinking in El celoso extremeño - Paul Lewis-Smith
Performances of Pastoral in La ilustre fregona: Games within the Game - D. Gareth Walters
Cervantine Traits in La dos doncellas and La señora Cornelia - Idoya Puig
The Peculiar Arrangement of El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros - E.T. Aylward
Eutrapelia and Examplarity in the Novelas ejemplares - Colin Thompson
`Entre parejas anda el juego'/`All a Matter of Pairs': Reflections on Some Characters in the Novelas ejemplares - Jose Montero Reguera