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Dramas of distinction : a study of plays by Golden Age women / Teresa Scott Soufas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soufas, Teresa Scott, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 42.
- Studies in Romance Languages ; 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Spanish drama.
- Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--Spain.
- Women and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Renaissance Europe was the scene of flourishing and innovative dramatic art, and seventeenth-century Spain enjoyed its own Golden Age of the stage. According to traditional studies of this period, however, men seemed to be the only participants. Now in Dramas of Distinction, Teresa Scott Soufas offers the first book-length critical study of five important women playwrights: Angela de Azevedo, Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman, and Marfa de Zayas y Sotomayor.By locating the plays within their period, Soufas avoids universalizing women without reg
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Comedia, Gender, Convention; 2. Bodies of Authority: El conde Partinuplés (Caro) and Lafirmeza en la ausencia (Cueva); 3. Marriage Dilemmas: Dichay desdicha del juego and La margarita del Tajo (Azevedo); 4. Carnivalesque Implications: Valor, agravioy mujer (Caro), El muerto disimulado (Azevedo), and La traición en la amistad (Zayas); 5. Locales of Dramaturgy: Tragicomedia los jardines y campos sabeos (Enríquez ); Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813132938
- 0813132932
- 9780813159195
- 0813159199
- OCLC:
- 645849411
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