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Dear Mr Tuckett,
After seeing Shakespeare and Milton cited in Bott Spillius's article 'Varieties of envious experience' (Int. J. Psychoanal., 74:1199-1213), I felt she would have liked to read thoughts on the subject of envy from some contemporary writers of the Spanish Golden Age.
Calderón de la Barca acknowledged the universality of envy when he stated:
'No hay hombre tan desdichadoQue no tenga un envidioso,Ni hombre tan venturosoQue no tenga un envidiado'
(Saber del mal y del bien, 1647)