'Lector Ludens'

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction

1. Leisure and Recreation in Early Modern Spain

• Theoretical Contexts
• Prerational and Rational Play in the Epic, the Picaresque, and the Quixotic
• The Space and Function of Eutrapelia
• CristÓbal MÉndez, Rodrigo Caro, Fray Alonso Remon: Therapeutic Exercise
• Human Divinity and Depravity: Vives, Erasmus, Montaigne
• Play types in Golden Age Spain
• Chess
• Games of Chance
• Physical activity and competition
• Mimesis
• Ilinx
• Regulating play in the Indias

2. Solitary, Collaborative and Complicit Play in Don Quijote

• Cervantes and the Ambivalent Freedom of Play
• Players and Games in Don Quijote
• Play and Laughter in Don Quijote
• Laughing At, Laughing With
• Comic Doubt and Delusion in Don Quijote
• Ludic Scepticism in Don Quijote II

3. The Novelas ejemplares: Ocio, Exemplarity, and Community

• Agonistic and Restrictive Play in El licenciado Vidriera
• The Agonistic Intellect: Cruel Comedy and Vidriera’s Humourless Vision
• The Picaresque and Play in El coloquio de los perros
• Play and the Liminal Underworld Experience
• Dialogue and the Digressive Quest for Meaning in El coloquio de los perros
• Play and the Exemplarity of Process
• Picaresque Freedom and Festive Play
• The Festive Mode of the Picaresque
• Monipodio’s Criminal and Ludic Community in Rinconete y Cortadillo
• Distance, Morality, and the Allure of the Aesthetic Experience
• Generic Interplay in La ilustre fregona
• Interrogation and Validation of the Fictional World

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography