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Informationen zum Autor Dian Fox is a professor emerita of Hispanic studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Refiguring the Hero: From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderón and Kings in Calderón: A Study in Characterization and Political Theory. Klappentext "Scrutinizes ways that gender performances of two male icons of the early modern Iberian Peninsula are structured to express enduring nationhood, in theater and other genres"-- Zusammenfassung Investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons - Hercules and King Sebastian - are structured to express enduring nationhood. Dian Fox's analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and other media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Honor, Gender, and (Spanish) Nation Part 1. Hercules 2. Hercules Hispanicus 3. The Deaths of Hercules 4. Hercules Redux: Transvestism and the Hombre Esquivo Part 2. King Sebastian 5. En Route to King Sebastian 6. The Once and Future King: Sebastian and Sebastianisms 7. Staging Sebastian: The Body that Mattered 8. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
