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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carrión, María M. (María Mercedes)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2010.
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.