The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: A Critical Study

by Guillermo Schmidhuber

" Sor Juana In?s 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813120888
• ISBN13: 9780813120881
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher