The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Ines De LA Cruz a Critical Study
- List Price: $40.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
- Publish date: 03/01/2000
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. At age sixteen she entered a convent, where she collected a private library of 4,000 volumes and wrote poetry, prose, and plays. One of the most influential early feminists, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women.
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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 dramatic work. His 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.
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