El entrelazamiento en el Quijote

Interlacing in Don Quixote provides Cervantes the opportunity to develop both the character of Cide Hamete and his role as the party responsible for the majority of the narrative shifts in the main story line. This is not the only difference in the use of this traditional chivalric novel technique between Don Quixote and the other three privileged texts with which there is an intertextual dialogue: Orlando furioso, Orlando innamorato and Amadís de Gaula. A comparison of how and when the interlace occurs, as well as the relationship between them and the narrative content itself reveal the ways in which Cervantes uses this technique that, on the one hand, takes up the models of the chivalric novels but, on the other hand, reproduces the characteristic tones and modes of treatment found in the narrative voices of Ariosto and Boiardo.