The three secular plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : a critical study /

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Author / Creator:Schmidhuber de la Mora, Guillermo.
Imprint:Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Romance languages ; 43
Studies in Romance Languages
Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 43.
Subject:Juana Inés de la Cruz, -- Sister, -- 1651-1695 -- Dramatic works.
Juana Inés de la Cruz, -- Sister, -- 1651-1695 -- Authorship.
Juana Inés de la Cruz, -- Sister, -- 1651-1695.
DRAMA -- Continental European.
DRAMA -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Authorship.
Criticism and interpretation.
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 -- Authorship.
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 -- Dramatic works.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239884
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Other uniform titles:Peña Doria, Olga Martha.
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695. Plays.
ISBN:9780813157467
0813157463
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most influential early feminists in the New World, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women. She collected a private library of 4,000 volumes, but when she was told that her studies were delaying the progress of her spiritual education, she.
Other form:Print version: Schmidhuber, Guillermo. Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : A Critical Study. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2000 9780813120881
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An offering in the "Studies in Romance Languages" series, this volume presents the first exclusive examination of the secular plays of the Mexican baroque/mannerist author. In seven chapters, Schmidhuber provides background information and full analysis of the three dramas, with some comparison to Sor Juana's poetry. He presents evidence for her completion of the play The Second Celestina, left unfinished at the death of its original author, Agustin de Salazar y Torres. He investigates Sor Juana's coauthorship with Juan de Guevara of the drama L'amor es mas laverinto (Love Is Indeed a Labyrinth) and analyzes the one secular drama attributed to Sor Juana alone, The Trials of a Noble House. Schmidhuber highlights Sor Juana's interests in dramatic theory, style, allegory, popular language, women's rights, irony, cultural variation, and mythology, with possible influences from Lope, Calderon, and Moreto. He invites further research and reassessment of these plays, encouraging their modern staging. This is an important addition to the increasing Sorjuanian bibliography, complementing Patricia Peters and Renee Domeier's recent translation of her religious drama The Divine Narcissus (CH, Sep'98); Stephanie Merrim's Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (CH, Jan'00); and Pamela Kirk's Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Religion, Art, and Feminism (CH, Jun'98). Graduate scholars, faculty. ; St. John Fisher College

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