Persephone's girdle
Subtitle: narratives of rape in seventeenth-century Spanish literature
By: Marcia L. Welles.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Rape in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-248 ) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Note on the title; title: Introduction; title: "A blood puzzle": Cervantes's "La fuerza de la sangre"; title: Rojas Zorrilla's Lucrecia y Tarquino: "The taming of lucretia" or the staging of perverse desire and Lope's El príncipe despeñado: "Lucretia interrupta"; title: Diversionary tactic: women in the peasant honor plays; title: "The rape of Deianeira" in Calderón's El pintor de su deshonra; title: The Progne y Filomena plays of Guillén de Castro and Rojas Zorrilla; title: The transformation of Tamar in Tirso's La venganza de Tamar and Calderón's Los cabellos de Absalón; title: Julia: the prison house of silence; title: Afterword; title: Notes; title: Works cited; title: Index.