The force of habit : La fuerza de la costumbre / Guillén de Castro ; edited by Melissa Reneé Machit ; translated by Kathleen Jeffs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, Guillén de, 1569-1631, author.

Contributor:

Jeffs, Kathleen, 1981- translator.

Machit, Melissa Reneé, editor.

Series:

Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics.

Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Drama.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Parallel Spanish text and English translation.

Summary:

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time ever, Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') will be available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages. Castro's plot is unique in that, unlike other cross dressing plays, the children do not traverse gender boundaries by choice; instead complications arising from their parents' problematic marriage dictate the gender they should perform. This new Spanish edition (the first since 1927) and performance-tested English translation will begin a new discussion of this understudied work and its implications among Hispanists, comparatists, performance theorists, and gender scholars. The critical apparatus includes a biography of the author, textual history, editorial methodology, metrical analysis, bibliography and notes on the text. Machit's introductory essay, 'Bad Habits: Gender Made and Remade in La fuerza de la costumbre' aims to contextualize and investigate the most salient questions raised by Castro's gender-bending play.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-80034-529-1