Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others. Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season.

These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. In this volume they are translated into the idiom of our own time by poets Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique. Some of them are rooted in Renaissance courtly conventions; others are startlingly ahead of their time, seemingly modern in the naked power of the complex sexual feelings they address.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) fue una religiosa y escritora mexicana, exponente del Siglo de Oro de la literatura en espanol. Cultivo la lirica, el auto sacramental, el teatro y la prosa. Por la importancia de su obra, recibio los sobrenombres de el Fenix de America, la Decima Musa o la Decima Musa mexicana.

Text in Spanish. El martir del Sacramento es uno de los tres autos sacramentales de sor Juana Ines dela Cruz, junto con El divino Narciso y El cetro de Jose. La presente edicion ofrece eltexto mas fiable hasta la fecha, acompanado de un aparato de notas explicativas y unestudio preliminar que intenta contextualizar el auto en su marco generico y facilitar lacomprension de los lectores de nuestros dias.