Sor Juana And Other Plays
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Sor Juana and Other Plays
Author: Estela Portillo Trambley
language: en
Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Release Date: 1983
These plays explore different facets of the human experience: the dilemma of the mojado, human vulnerabilities in the search for a way to overcome death, the alienation of the Hispanic family amidst economic hardships and personal crises, and the existential conflicts of Mexico's most celebrated feminist thinker, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Author: Guillermo Schmidhuber
language: en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date: 2014-10-17
Sor Juana Inés 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. She collected a private library of 4,000 volumes, but when she was told that her studies were delaying the progress of her spiritual education, she gave away her books and devoted herself to religious studies. Traditionally, scholars have attributed only one complete play to Sor Juana, but in 1989 Guillermo Schmidhuber discovered a lost play, The Second Celestina, which he proved conclusively to be Sor Juana's earliest comedia, co-authored with Agustin Salazar y Torres. Schmidhuber's critical study is the first dedicated exclusively to the secular plays and the first to confirm Sor Juana's authorship of three dramatic pieces. Combining literary history and criticism, Schmidhuber explores the life and originality of Sor Juana's dramas and helps elucidate her enigmatic genius. Though Sor Juana's work as a poet and intellectual has received increasing attention in the last decade, writing about her has rarely taken into account her role as dramatist. Schmidhuber helps correct this critical imbalance by examining Sor Juana's plays in light of dramatic theory. He finds elements of both mannerist and baroque theater in her work, sometimes both within the same play.
A Sor Juana Anthology
Author: Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 1988
Juana Inés de la Cruz was acclaimed in her time as the "Phoenix of Mexico", America's tenth muse; a generation later she was forgotten. Rediscovered 300 years later, her works were reissued and she is now considered one of the finest Hispanic poets of the seventeenth century. Her works speak directly to our concern for the freedom of women to realize themselves artistically and intellectually. This anthology contains a selection of her poems.