ENGENDERING THE EARLY MODERN STAGE.
Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire.

Edited by Valerie Hegstrom & Amy R. Williamsen

Engendering the Early Modern AgeThis book brings together original critical studies that document and analyze the vital contributions of women-both secular and religious-writing in Spanish during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The volume is divided into three Acts">



ENGENDERING THE EARLY MODERN STAGE.
Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire.

Edited by Valerie Hegstrom & Amy R. Williamsen

Engendering the Early Modern AgeThis book brings together original critical studies that document and analyze the vital contributions of women-both secular and religious-writing in Spanish during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The volume is divided into three Acts">



ENGENDERING THE EARLY MODERN STAGE.
Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire.

Edited by Valerie Hegstrom & Amy R. Williamsen

Engendering the Early Modern AgeThis book brings together original critical studies that document and analyze the vital contributions of women-both secular and religious-writing in Spanish during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The volume is divided into three Acts">



ENGENDERING THE EARLY MODERN STAGE.
Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire.

Edited by Valerie Hegstrom & Amy R. Williamsen

Engendering the Early Modern AgeThis book brings together original critical studies that document and analyze the vital contributions of women-both secular and religious-writing in Spanish during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The volume is divided into three Acts, framed by an introduction (loa), two entremeses, and a concluding celebration (sarao).  Two appendixes, providing information about the works of all women known to have written for the theater in Spanish in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conclude the volume but represent a point of departure for further research.

Each essay in the collection exemplifies significant trends in criticism, ranging from performance-based considerations of drama to feminist psychoanalytical approaches to literature.  The contributors, several of whom are pioneers in the field, all bring their particular expertise to the anthology.  Together, this group of scholars has aimed to make more visible the many contributions to theater in Spanish made by the Early Modern women whom traditional literary histories have largely overlooked.  Ultimately, this inclusive approach allows for a more effective exploration of the complex relationships between margin and center, gender and authority, performance and text.

 

The Authors

Valerie Hegstrom is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University.  Her edition of María de Zayas’ La traición en la amistad, together with a translation of the play by Catherine Larson, is to be published in 1999.  Her current work includes a translation of Sor Teresa de Cartagena’s treatises and an edition of the complete extant plays of Sor Maria do Ceo.
Amy Williamsen is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona.  She has published a book, Co(s)mic Chaos:  Exploring Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.  In addition, she has co-edited a collection of essays, María de Zayas:  The Dynamics of Discourse, and has authored several articles on women writers of the period

(1999) 333p.
ISBN: 1-889431-47-8
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