The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama

• Author(s): Christopher D. Gascón,
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Pages: 203
• ISBN_10: 0838756476
  ISBN_13: 9780838756478
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Drama , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women ,

Description:... 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