Dramas of distinction : a study of plays by Golden Age women / / Teresa Scott Soufas

• Autore: Soufas Teresa Scott
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1997; ©1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 862/.30809287
• Soggetto topico: Spanish drama - Women authors - History and criticism; Spanish drama - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Women and literature - Spain
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Comedia, Gender, Convention; 2. Bodies of Authority: El conde Partinuplés (Caro) and Lafirmeza en la ausencia (Cueva); 3. Marriage Dilemmas: Dichay desdicha del juego and La margarita del Tajo (Azevedo); 4. Carnivalesque Implications: Valor, agravioy mujer (Caro), El muerto disimulado (Azevedo), and La traición en la amistad (Zayas); 5. Locales of Dramaturgy: Tragicomedia los jardines y campos sabeos (Enríquez ); Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Renaissance Europe was the scene of flourishing and innovative dramatic art, and seventeenth-century Spain enjoyed its own Golden Age of the stage. According to traditional studies of this period, however, men seemed to be the only participants. Now in Dramas of Distinction, Teresa Scott Soufas offers the first book-length critical study of five important women playwrights: Angela de Azevedo, Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman, and Marfa de Zayas y Sotomayor.By locating the plays within their period, Soufas avoids universalizing women without reg
• Titolo autorizzato: Dramas of distinction
• ISBN: 0-8131-3293-2; 0-8131-5919-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787386003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; ; 42.