nO ticed an explicit similarity between its structure . and that of Ovid's tale of Pyramus and Thisbe (Met. 4.55-166).1 Observing that "both in Encina's % play and in the story of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book Iv), a lover resolves to commit suicide upon finding, next to a spring or stream, the body of his/her beloved, who has just performed self-murder" (139), he does not elaborate on these promising connections but simply adds in a note: "To be sure, the surrounding circumstances in the two stories are quite different, but the correspondences are such to seem beyond the realm of coincidence" (140). While McGrady deserves due credit for being the first to recognize fundamental parallels between the Latin myth and the Spanish play, the connections go well beyond those he mentions. The Egloga de Pldcida y Vitoriano is a dramatization of sexual desire manifested in the self's striving for union or communication