Force of Habit (La Fuerza De La Costumbre) By Guillen De Castro

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time, Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') is available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages.

Info autore

GuillÃ(c)n de Castro y Bellvis (1569-1631) was a Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.

Melissa R. Machit holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University.

Kathleen Jeffs is Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department, Gonzaga University.

Riassunto

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time, Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre (‘The Force of Habit’) is available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Guillen de Castro, Guillén de Castro, Kathleen Jeffs, Melissa R. Machit
• Con la collaborazione di: Melissa R Machit (Editore), Melissa R. Machit (Editore), Kathleen Jeffs (Traduzione)
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781786941459
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-145-9
• Pagine: 382
• Serie: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics; Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla; Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics; Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata