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Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia (Paperback)
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Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia (Paperback)
Series: New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
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The Baroque Spanish stage is populated with virile queens and
feminized kings. This study examines the diverse ways in which
seventeenth-century comedias engage with the discourse of power and
rulership and how it relates to gender. A privileged place for
ideological negotiation, the comedia provided negative and positive
reflections of kingship at a time when there was a perceived crisis
of monarchical authority in the Habsburg court. Author MarA a
Cristina Quintero explores how playwrights such as Pedro
CalderA(3)n de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Antonio Coello, and
Francisco Bances Candamo--taking inspiration from legend, myth, and
history--repeatedly staged fantasies of feminine rule, at a time
when there was a concerted effort to contain women's visibility and
agency in the public sphere. The comedia's preoccupation with
kingship together with its obsession with the representation of
women (and women's bodies) renders the question of royal
subjectivity inseparable from issues surrounding masculinity and
femininity. Taking into account theories of performance and
performativity within a historical context, this study investigates
how the themes, imagery, and language in plays by CalderA(3)n and
his contemporaries reveal a richly paradoxical presentation of
gendered monarchical power.
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