A History of the Useless Precaution Plot in Spanish and French Literature ISBN: 9781469634982 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of North Carolina Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Deception in literature.; Comparative literature; Comparative literature;
This edition is annotated and introduced with a detailed chart of representative Spanish and French works of "useless-precaution" plots. The intention of the essay is to deal with the specific aspect of cuckoldry (traceable in literary history), in which cuckolding is the final result of a dramatic plot.