The Force of Habit (La fuerza de la costumbre) by Guillen de Castro Paperback / softback
Edited by Melissa R. Machit
Part of the Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 ever, Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') will be available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages.
Castro's plot is unique in that, unlike other cross dressing plays, the children do not traverse gender boundaries by choice; instead complications arising from their parents' problematic marriage dictate the gender they should perform.
This new Spanish edition (the first since 1927) and performance-tested English translation will begin a new discussion of this understudied work and its implications among Hispanists, comparatists, performance theorists, and gender scholars.
The critical apparatus includes a biography of the author, textual history, editorial methodology, metrical analysis, bibliography and notes on the text.
Machit's introductory essay, 'Bad Habits: Gender Made and Remade in La fuerza de la costumbre' aims to contextualize and investigate the most salient questions raised by Castro's gender-bending play.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:382 pages, 12 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2019
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- ISBN:9781786941459
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:382 pages, 12 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786941459
