The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age DramaThe Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama examines thevarious ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure ofthe ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater.Play-wrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite ofpassage struggling to purify herself to approach spiritual perfection;they also focus on the clash between ascetic practice and the desiresof family, suitors, and patriarchal society. She may appear as both aforbidden fruit and Christ figure that is ultimately persecuted, scapegoated, and executed by a fearful society |
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Lope de Vegas Vida ymuerte de Santa Teresa de Jesus | 64 |
The Woman Saint as Forbidden Fruit and Christ Figure | 80 |
Angela de Azevedos La Margarita del Tajo que dio nombre a Santaren | 83 |
Calderon de la Barcas El mAgico prodigioso | 98 |
The Woman Saint as Symbolic Mediator | 125 |
Angela de Azevedos Dicha y desdicha del juego y devocion de la virgen | 127 |
Tirso de Molinas La Santa Juana Parts 2 and 3 | 145 |
Conclusion | 162 |
Notes | 170 |
Bibliography | 190 |
Index | 199 |
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