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Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia. by Quintero, María Cristina (review)

Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia. by Quintero, María Cristina (review) Quintero, María Cristina. Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 248 pp. In this excellent study, María Cristina Quintero examines an often overlooked representation of monarchy in the personae of powerful queens. While her principal sources are plays by Calderón, she situates the discussion within the context of society in Habsburg Spain--the court of Philip IV in particular-- and the expectations spelled out in conduct books. The first chapter contrasts the queenly characters portrayed by actresses with the strictures on feminine conduct articulated by tratadistas. It juxtaposes the Spanish preoccupation with the enclosure of women and its attendant obsession with honor with the anxiety engendered by the public display of the female body and, more problematically, the exercise of power by women rulers. Although examples of ruling queens from Isabel la Católica to Elizabeth I of England existed, playwrights usually chose figures from mythology or ancient history to articulate their underlying theses. Calderón's portrayal of Zenobia in La gran Cenobia, along with Tirso's of Irene, Empress of Byzantium, in La república al revés, looks to classical examples to explore "the workings of gender and its connections to ideologies of power and authority" (51). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the Comediantes Bulletin of the Comediantes

Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia. by Quintero, María Cristina (review)

Howe, Elizabeth Teresa
Bulletin of the Comediantes , Volume 65 (1) – Jul 28, 2013
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Quintero, María Cristina. Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 248 pp. In this excellent study, María Cristina Quintero examines an often overlooked representation of monarchy in the personae of powerful queens. While her principal sources are plays by Calderón, she situates the discussion within the context of society in Habsburg Spain--the court of Philip IV in particular-- and the expectations spelled out in conduct books. The first chapter contrasts the queenly characters portrayed by actresses with the strictures on feminine conduct articulated by tratadistas. It juxtaposes the Spanish preoccupation with the enclosure of women and its attendant obsession with honor with the anxiety engendered by the public display of the female body and, more problematically, the exercise of power by women rulers. Although examples of ruling queens from Isabel la Católica to Elizabeth I of England existed, playwrights usually chose figures from mythology or ancient history to articulate their underlying theses. Calderón's portrayal of Zenobia in La gran Cenobia, along with Tirso's of Irene, Empress of Byzantium, in La república al revés, looks to classical examples to explore "the workings of gender and its connections to ideologies of power and authority" (51).

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