Subject Stages : Marriage, Theatre and the Law in Early Modern Spain /
Subject Stages argues that the discourses and practices of marital legislation, litigation, and theatrics informed each other in early modern Spain in ways that still have a critical bearing on contemporary events in Spain, such as the legalization of divorce in 1978 and of same-sex marriage in 2005...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Español |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2010.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Marital law and order in early modern Spain
- Marriage scenes in the archives
- The birth of the comedia and the bride onstage
- Foundational violence and the drama of honour
- Punishing illicit desire
- Woman in breeches
- Coda : the musical chairs of divorce.