Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia

By - Quintero, Maria Cristina

Floor - Floor 3

ISBN 10 - 1409439631

ISBN 13 - 9781409439639

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Sex role in literature

Shelf No - 10

Call Number - 862.3093 QUI

Physical Description - 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations.

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Taking into account theories of gender, performance and performativity within a historical context, this study explores how the Baroque comedia's preoccupation with kingship goes hand in hand with the obsessive representation of women (and women's bodies). The question of royal subjectivity in plays dealing with fantasies of feminine rule–by Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina and others–is rendered inseparable from issues surrounding masculinity and femininity.

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