The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : A Critical Study / Guillermo Schmidhuber in collaboration with Olga Martha Peña Doria ; translated by Shelby Thacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidhuber de la Mora, Guillermo.

Contributor:

Peña Doria, Olga Martha.

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695.

Series:

Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 43.

Studies in Romance languages ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695--Authorship.

Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695--Dramatic works.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most influential early feminists in the New World, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women. She collected a private library of 4,000 volumes, but when she was told that her studies were delaying the progress of her spiritual education, she

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; By Way of Prologue; Glossary of Literary Terms from Spanish; First Critical Act: Introduction to Sor Juana's Dramatic Work; The Last of the Forgotten; On the Question of Dramatic Genres; Sor Juana's Dramatic Work; Early Editions and Dramatic Texts; Appreciation of Sor Juana's Theater by Her Contemporaries; Anonymous Editions; Editions of Doubtful Authorship; Dramaturgy and the Convent; Second Critical Act: The Dramatic Itinerary of Sor Juana; Chronology for the Compositions and Performances

The Second Celestina, in Collaboration with Agustin de Salazar y TorresThe Trials of a Noble House; Love Is Indeed a Labyrinth, in Collaboration with Juan de Guevara; Dramatic Itinerary Repertory of Works Performed during Sor Juana's Lifetime; Sor Juana's Readings of Dramatic Works; Comparative Study of the Three Plays; The Triangular Structure; Metric Study; Sor Juana's Art of Love; Reception Codes for the Theater; Third Critical Act: Sor Juana's Poetics for Drama; The Dramatic Theory of Sor Juana; The Author's Criteria; Theater as Visual Metaphor; Allegorical Characters and Human Characters

Conflicts of Thought and Conflicts of ActionPrincipal Dramatic Influences; Elements of Sor Juana's Theater; Dramatic Elements; Linguistic Elements; Dramatic Rhetoric; Metatheater; The Mexican Quality of SOT fuana's Theater; Fourth Critical Act: The Second Celestina; Introduction; Research into the Authorship of The Second Celestina; Documentary and Factual Evidence; Ideological and Thematic Evidence; Linguistic and Statistical Evidence; Proof of Sor Juana's Authorship; The Other Ending for the Play by Salazar y Torres; Dramatic Elements of The Second Celestina; The Plot; The Structure

Final CommentaryPsychological Code; Ideological Code; Aesthetic-Theatrical Code; Linguistic Code; Fifth Critical Act: The Trials of a Noble House; Introduction; Study of The Trials of a Noble House; Loa; Lyrics for the Song ""Divine Phoenix, Allow . . . ""; Act I; Lyrics for the Song ""Most Beautiful Mary . . . ""; Act II; Lyrics for the Song ""Tender, Adored Adonis . . . ""; The Second Sainete; Act III; Dramatic Elements; Final Commentary; Aesthetic-Theatrical Code; Psychological Code; Ideological Code; Linguistic Code; Sixth Critical Act: Love Is Indeed a Labyrinth; Introduction

Study of Love Is Indeed a LabyrinthThe Loa Celebrating the Birthday of His Excellency, the Count of Galve; Act I; Act II; Act III; The Dramatic Structure; Could Sor Juana Have Collaborated on Act IB; Dramatic Elements in Love Is Indeed a Labyrinth; Final Commentary; Seventh Critical Act: Posthumous Reputation of Sor Juana's Theater; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pl [179]-191) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Related Work:

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695. Plays.

ISBN:

9780813189611

0813189616

9780813157467

0813157463

OCLC:

606296094