Zayas y Sotomayor, María de - Valerie Hegstrom (essay date summer 1994)
Valerie Hegstrom (essay date summer 1994)
SOURCE: Hegstrom, Valerie. “The Fallacy of False Dichotomy in María de Zayas's La traction en la amistad.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 46, no. 1 (summer 1994): 59-70.
[In the following essay, Oakey regards Zayas's drama as a subversion of Golden Age conventions, where the reimposition of male dominance signals the end of the play and a return to normality. This essay was originally published under the name Valerie Hegstrom Oakey.]
The works of María de Zayas have gained more importance recently in studies of Spanish Golden Age literature. While several books and articles have appeared on her narrative works, only a few scholars have studied her theater. Her play La traición en la amistad stands out among comedias, as one of just a handful of theatrical works available by women of that period. One scholar who has treated La traición, Matthew Stroud, concludes...
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