Buch, Englisch, Band 105, 266 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 660 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 105, 266 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 660 g
Reihe: Teatro del Siglo de Oro. Estudios de Literatura
ISBN: 978-3-937734-42-2
Verlag: Edition Reichenberger
In spite of decrees that intended to forbid woman’s public performance, women conquered the stage in Spain from the late sixteenth century onwards. The unconventional, assertive female, the mujer varonil, became a favourite character in Spanish Golden Age drama. Moreover, women hit the Spanish stage as actresses, in the public theatres as well as in the enclosed ambience of the convent, as leaders of theatre companies and as playwrights. While plays by English writers equally questioned ideas about traditional femininity, staging strong and assertive women who reject submission as well as silent domesticity, women’s active role in the English public theatre could only begin after the Restoration in 1660. However, English women found alternative ways of manifesting themselves as actresses or dramatists through household theatricals and through the genre of closet drama. As a comparative study this volume shows how on both Golden Age stages theatrical activity was bound up with gender subversion.
The volume contains contributions by María del Carmen Alarcón Román, Marguérite Corporaal, Alison Findlay, José Manuel González Fernández, María J. Pando Canteli, Maite Pascual Bonis, Barbara Ravelhofer, Rina Walthaus, Helen Wilcox, Amy R. Williamsen and Marion Wynne-Davies.