Note 8 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Thus R. D. Perés (Cultura española, 1906, pp. 135-37), interprets doña Juana of Casandra as the ancien régime, Casandra as liberty working through the revolution of '68, Rosaura as truth. It is true that he is writing of the novel, not the play, but the characters are the same. In the novel El caballero encantado the spirit of Spain is personified in one of the chief characters.