Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia
| By: | Quintero, María Cristina, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409439639 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409461555 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 Mar