Note 352 — SECOND SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century.

In the supplement to the Viage al Parnaso, Cervantes particularly mentions his nine dramas in terms of the most decided self-satisfaction. “If they were not my own, (he says) I should declare that they merit all the praise they have obtained.” He alludes with particular complacency to his comedy, entitled, La Confusa, which he styles a good one among the best. But La Confusa, as well as the others which Cervantes praises, is lost. Among the eight which are known, La Gran Sultana seems to be that which Cervantes mentions under the title of La Gran Turquesca.