Woman And Society In The Spanish Drama Of The Golden Age

An identification and analysis of Spanish Golden-Age drama's preoccupation with the woman who will not accept marriage as her natural role.

The essays in this collection provide new material to enable the continuing recuperation of the complex social ambiance that both created and was reflected in the literature of Spain's Golden Age.

Some writers present her as a representative of the symbolic order: invested with sacred powers and ultimate authority, she rebukes transgressors and negotiates their return to God's grace and lawful society."--Jacket.

The plays are in Spanish. Los papeles están en el español.

DIVClose readings of canonical Spanish “Golden Age” and Latin American “colonial” texts, drawing heavily on the findings and strategies of psychoanalytic criticism, gender studies and Marxism, and offering an understanding of a repres/div