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- Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega
- Book
- 1994
- Published by: Purdue University Press
- Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
summary
Between 1585 and 1631, the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega wrote more than forty-five plays dealing with the theme of conjugal honor. Drawing on recent feminist theories and touching on literary, social, and anthropological aspects, Professor Yarbro-Rejarano demonstrates that hierarchical relations of gender, race, and social status mutually inform one another as structuring principles of these plays. She takes into account plays that reveal their conventional, formulaic views of the Christian feminine ideal as well as those whose variety and flexibility present women subverting their expected roles. By identifying moments of resistance and subversion in the texts, the author argues against excessively monolithic interpretations of such discourses of containment.
Table of Contents
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- List of Plays and Abbreviations
- pp. ix-xii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Chapter Two Sexual Outlaws
- pp. 41-72
- Chapter Three Secular Saints
- pp. 73-96
- Chapter Four Duplicity and Disguise
- pp. 97-125
- Chapter Six Mutuality and Submission
- pp. 167-198
- Chapter Eight The Negotiation of Meaning
- pp. 237-258
- Works Cited
- pp. 303-316
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612491035
Related ISBN(s)
9781557530448
MARC Record
OCLC
794701202
Pages
338
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No