The Woman Saint in the Spanish Golden Age Drama

by Christopher D. Gascon

The Woman Saint in the Spanish Golden Age Drama examines the various ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure of the ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. Playwrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite of passage, struggling to purify herself to approach the divine, but they also focus on the clash between ascetic practice and the desire of family, suitors, and patriarchal society. She...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611482550
• ISBN13: 9781611482553
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 203 Pages