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Women's Acts : Plays by Women Dramatists of Spain's Golden Age / Teresa Scott Soufas, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700.
- Spanish drama.
- Spanish drama--Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Seventeenth-century Spain witnessed a rich flowering of dramatic activity that paralleled the Renaissance stage in other European countries. Yet this Golden Age traditionally has been represented in print almost entirely by male playwrights. With Women's Acts, Teresa Scott Soufas makes available eight plays by five long-neglected women dramatists: Angela de Azevedo, Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman, and Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor. In her introduction, Soufas reviews the development of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish drama while focusing on the position of women during this period, the significance of these plays, and the issues the playwrights address. Each dramatist's section opens with an overview of the author's life and professional activity, a synopsis of her work(s), and a selected bibliography. In a modernized edition that is consistent, readable, and suitable for use by both students and scholars, the plays in Women's Acts will at last earn their rightful place in the canon of Renaissance drama.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Angela de Azevedo
- Dicha y desdicha del juego y devoción de la Virgen
- La margarita del Tajo que dio nombre a Santarén
- El muerto disimulado
- Ana Caro Mallén de Soto
- El conde Partinuplés
- Valor, agravio y mujer
- Leonor de la Cueva y Silva
- La firmeza en la ausencia
- Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán
- Segunda parte de la Tragicomedia los jardines y campos sabeos
- Entractos de la Segunda parte
- "Carta ejecutoria"
- "A los lectores"
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor
- La traición en la amistad.
- Notes to the Plays
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xvi).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-0889-6
- 0-8131-4929-0
- OCLC:
- 681147434
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