The beautiful woman in the theater of Lope de Vega : ideology and mythology of female beauty in seventeenth-century Spain / Marlene K. Smith. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Marlene K., 1949-

Series:

Ibérica (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 28.

Ibérica, 1056-5000 ; vol. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Criticism and interpretation.

Vega, Lope de.

Women in literature.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 197 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This study examines the dramatic function of the beautiful woman in the theater of Lope de Vega (1562-1635). The author uses as a critical framework medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque ideologies of beauty as well as contemporary feminist studies on the "beauty myth" which constructs female beauty as a form of patriarchal oppression against women. Included are a moral and physical portrait of the beautiful woman in Golden Age Spain and a survey of the literary treatment of this topic prior to Lope. The study further considers Lope's presentation of excessive female beauty as a prime agent of social disorder, as a potent threat to male honor, and as an inducement to sexual exploitation."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-190) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8204-3763-8