Don Juan Manuel naturalizes the Eastern apologue in Spain, and by the laconic picturesqueness of his expression imports a new quality into Spanish prose which attains its full development in the hands of Juan de Vald�s and Calder�n in " La Vida es sue�o ", and by Jos?de Ca�izares in " Don Juan de Espina en Mil�n "; there is an evident, though remote, relation between the tale of the " mancebo que cas?con una mujer muy fuerte y muy brava " and " The Taming of the Shrew "; and a more direct connexion exists between some of Don Juan Manuel's " enxemplos " and some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.
