Title: The beautiful woman in the theater of Lope de Vega
First published: 1998
Description: "This study examines the dramatic function of the beautiful woman in the theater of Lope de Vega (1562-1635). The author uses as a critical framework medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque ideologies of beauty as well as contemporary feminist studies on the "beauty myth" which constructs female beauty as a form of patriarchal oppression against women. Included are a moral and physical portrait of the beautiful woman in Golden Age Spain and a survey of the literary treatment of this topic prior to Lope.

The study further considers Lope's presentation of excessive female beauty as a prime agent of social disorder, as a potent threat to male honor, and as an inducement to sexual exploitation."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature, Vega, lope de, 1562-1635, Aesthetics, history, Spanish drama, history and criticism
People: Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
LC classification: PQ6485 .S65 1998