The Force of Habit (La fuerza de la costumbre) by Guillen de Castro (Paperback)

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time ever, Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') will be available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages. Castro's plot is unique in that, unlike other cross dressing plays, the children do not traverse gender boundaries by choice; instead complications arising from their parents' problematic marriage dictate the gender they should perform. This new Spanish edition (the first since 1927) and performance-tested English translation will begin a new discussion of this understudied work and its implications among Hispanists, comparatists, performance theorists, and gender scholars. The critical apparatus includes a biography of the author, textual history, editorial methodology, metrical analysis, bibliography and notes on the text. Machit's introductory essay, 'Bad Habits: Gender Made and Remade in La fuerza de la costumbre' aims to contextualize and investigate the most salient questions raised by Castro's gender-bending play.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Release date:	April 2019
First published:	2018
Editors:	Melissa R. Machit
Translators:	Kathleen Jeffs
Dimensions:	210 x 147 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	382
ISBN-13:	978-1-78694-145-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Translation & interpretation > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78694-145-7
Barcode:	9781786941459

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