SOURCE: Matulka, Barbara. “The Influence of the Grisel y Mirabella in France: Scudéry: Le Prince Déguisé.” In The Novels of Juan de Flores and Their European Diffusion: A Study in Comparative Literature, pp. 203-11. New York: Institute of French Studies, 1931.

In the excerpt below, Matulka argues that while Le Prince déguisé is indebted to Flores's Historia de Aurelio e Isabella, for its principal themes, the play incorporates elements from a number of other sources as well.

The principal influence in France of Juan de Flores' Historia de Aurelio e Isabella is found in Scudéry's Le Prince Déguisé.¹ In a general way this connection has been noted by scholars,² but the exact relation of Scudéry's tragi-comedy to its Spanish, as well as to its other sources, has been only lately investigated. For the purposes of the present study, we shall condense here the...