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Persephone's girdle : narratives of rape in seventeenth-century Spanish literature / Marcia L. Welles.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Welles, Marcia L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Spanish drama > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Rape in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the title
  • Introduction
  • "A blood puzzle": Cervantes's "La fuerza de la sangre"
  • Rojas Zorrilla's Lucrecia y Tarquino: "The taming of lucretia" or the staging of perverse desire and Lope's El príncipe despeñado: "Lucretia interrupta"
  • Diversionary tactic: women in the peasant honor plays
  • "The rape of Deianeira" in Calderón's El pintor de su deshonra
  • The Progne y Filomena plays of Guillén de Castro and Rojas Zorrilla
  • The transformation of Tamar in Tirso's La venganza de Tamar and Calderón's Los cabellos de Absalón
  • Julia: the prison house of silence
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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