The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama

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Bucknell University Press, 2006 - 203
The 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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Ritual Desire and the Woman Saint in Spanish Baroque Theater
23
The Woman Saint as Desiring Subject
39
Sor Marcela de San Felixs Muerte del Apetito
43
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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